CVE-2016-5259
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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| mozilla / firefox | - | 47.0.1.x |
| oracle / linux | 5.0 | 5.0.x |
| oracle / linux | 6 | 6.x |
| oracle / linux | 7 | 7.x |
| mozilla / firefox | 45.1.0 | 45.1.0.x |
| mozilla / firefox | 45.1.1 | 45.1.1.x |
| mozilla / firefox | 45.2.0 | 45.2.0.x |
| mozilla / firefox | 45.3.0 | 45.3.0.x |
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-73.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282992
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
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