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Status published
High
CVE-2016-5258
Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279146
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-72.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
linux, firefox
Vulnerable Versions:
5.0, 6, 7, 0, 45.1.0, 45.1.1, 45.2.0, 45.3.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 5th, 2016
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.