CVE-2016-2811 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox (opens in a new tab)
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- published30 Apr 2016
- disclosed30 Apr 2016
Introduced: 30 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-2811 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:13.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Debian.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ServiceWorkerInfo class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the BeginReading method.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2811
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-42.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1252330
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2811
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2936-3