CVE-2016-5259

NameCVE-2016-5259
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-585-1, DSA-3640-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid124.0.1-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)buster91.12.0esr-1~deb10u1fixed
buster (security)115.9.1esr-1~deb10u1fixed
bullseye115.7.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)115.9.1esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm115.7.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)115.9.1esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie115.8.0esr-1fixed
sid115.9.1esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)48.0-1
firefox-esrsourcewheezy45.3.0esr-1~deb7u1DLA-585-1
firefox-esrsourcejessie45.3.0esr-1~deb8u1DSA-3640-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)45.3.0esr-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-73/

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