| Name | CVE-2016-5259 |
| Description | Use-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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-585-1, DSA-3640-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 140.0.4-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 128.12.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 128.10.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 128.12.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 128.11.0esr-1 | fixed |
| sid | 128.12.0esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-73/