CVE-2016-5258

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.8 High

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2016-08-05

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Linux (Oracle)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-72.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279146
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15