Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5403  

When adding a range to an object in the DOM, it is possible to use addRange to add the range to an incorrect root object. This triggers a use-after-free, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

Severity Critical

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

When adding a range to an object in the DOM, it is possible to use addRange to add the range to an incorrect root object. This triggers a use-after-free, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

AVG-194 firefox 51.0.1-1 52.0-1 Critical Fixed

10 Mar 2017 ASA-201703-3 AVG-194 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/#CVE-2017-5403
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1340186