CVE-2016-5258

NameCVE-2016-5258
DescriptionUse-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.
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)sid131.0-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)115.15.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm115.14.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)128.3.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie115.15.0esr-1fixed
sid128.3.0esr-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/mfsa2016-72/

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