CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1961

8.8 HIGH Published 2016-03-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-03-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging mishandling of a root element, aka ZDI-CAN-3574.

Affected configurations

• opensuse leap 42.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • suse linux enterprise 12.0 • mozilla firefox (<= 44.0.2) • mozilla firefox 38.0 • mozilla firefox 38.0.1 • mozilla firefox 38.0.5 • mozilla firefox 38.1.0 • mozilla firefox 38.1.1 • mozilla firefox 38.2.0 • mozilla firefox 38.2.1 • mozilla firefox 38.3.0 • mozilla firefox 38.4.0 • mozilla firefox 38.5.0 • mozilla firefox 38.5.1 • mozilla firefox 38.6.0 • mozilla firefox 38.6.1 • mozilla thunderbird (<= 38.6.0) • oracle linux 5.0 • oracle linux 6 • oracle linux 7

References