Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox-esr  (opens in a new tab)


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1.61% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FIREFOXESR-601013
  • published30 Apr 2016
  • disclosed30 Apr 2016

Introduced: 30 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2812  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

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.

Race condition in the get implementation in the ServiceWorkerManager class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted web site.