Use After Free Affecting firefox-esr package, versions <45.3.0esr-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.99% (89th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOXESR-354968
- published 5 Aug 2016
- disclosed 5 Aug 2016
Introduced: 5 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-5258 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
firefox-esr
to version 45.3.0esr-1 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:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect free operations on DTLS objects during the shutdown of a WebRTC session.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5258
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-72.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279146
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5258
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1