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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5259: Vulnerability in Firefox

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-5259: Vulnerability in Firefox

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-yasm-1-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-45-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-45-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-45-4-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-45-4-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0

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