Published: 05/08/2016 Updated: 27/12/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox prior to 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x prior to 45.3 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.

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Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scripting, information disclosure and bypass of the same-origin policy For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fi ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-73 Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events Announced August 2, 2016 Reporter Looben Yang Impact Critical Products Firefox, Firefox ESR Fixed in ...

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 480 and Firefox ESR 45x before 453 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop ...

CWE-416 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-73.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282992 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3044-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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