CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5258
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-05
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect free operations on DTLS objects during the shutdown of a WebRTC session.
Affected configurations
• oracle linux 5.0
• oracle linux 6
• oracle linux 7
• mozilla firefox (<= 47.0.1)
• mozilla firefox 45.1.0
• mozilla firefox 45.1.1
• mozilla firefox 45.2.0
• mozilla firefox 45.3.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 www.debian.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-72.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279146 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 www.debian.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-72.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279146 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 security.gentoo.org