PT-2016-2526 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+6

Looben Yang · Published 2016-08-02 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5259

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0 Firefox ESR 45.x versions prior to 45.3

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0, update to version 48.0 or later. For Firefox ESR 45.x versions prior to 45.3, update to version 45.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1836

ALT-PU-2017-1578

BDU:2016-01917

CESA-2016_1551

CVE-2016-5259

DLA-585-1

DSA-3640-1

MGASA-2016-0278

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2253-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1964-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2026-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2016:1551

RHSA-2016_1551

SUSE-SU-2016:2061-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2195-1

USN-3044-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2166

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282992 · Exploit
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-67 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-64 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-70 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5259 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5259 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-76 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5259 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2254-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-63 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory