CVE-2016-1961

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox <45.0 - Firefox ESR <38.7 - Use After Free

Title source: llm

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.

References (24)

Core 24

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3520

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-24.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2934-1

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-199/

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249377

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3

Release Notes x_refsource_confirm

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/b208427885d3

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0075

EPSS Percentile 73.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published

Products (22)

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

... and 12 more

Published Mar 13, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026