CVE-2016-2821 Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.4% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-FIREFOXESR-355128
  • published13 Jun 2016
  • disclosed13 Jun 2016

Introduced: 13 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-2821  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 firefox-esr to version 45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox-esr package and not the firefox-esr package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2, when contenteditable mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering deletion of DOM elements that were created in the editor.

CVSS Scores

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