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MFSA2016-71 Firefox: Crash in incremental garbage collection in JavaScript (CVE-2016-5255)

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MFSA2016-71 Firefox: Crash in incremental garbage collection in JavaScript (CVE-2016-5255)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the js::PreliminaryObjectArray::sweep function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript that is mishandled during incremental garbage collection.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-48_0

References

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