Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 - CVE-2016-5259
Description:
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.
Microsoft Windows 10 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 8.1 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows XP
Product(s):
Mozilla Firefox
Definition Synopsis
Mozilla Firefox Mainline release is installed + version