7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-5280

Published: 22/09/2016 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::nsTextNodeDirectionalityMap::RemoveElementFromMap function in Mozilla Firefox prior to 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x prior to 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via bidirectional text.

Vulnerability Trend

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mozilla firefox esr 45.2.0

mozilla firefox esr 45.1.1

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mozilla firefox esr 45.3.0

mozilla firefox 45.0.2

mozilla firefox esr 45.0.1

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Critical: firefox security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical ...
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird ...
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 or information disclosure For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4540esr-1~deb8u2 For the unstable distr ...
Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::nsTextNodeDirectionalityMap::RemoveElementFromMap function in Mozilla Firefox before 490, Firefox ESR 45x before 454, and Thunderbird &lt; 454 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via bidirectional text ...
A use-after-free vulnerability has been discovered in the mozilla::nsTextNodeDirectionalityMap::RemoveElementFromMap function when changing text direction ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-85 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49 Announced September 20, 2016 Impact critical Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 49 ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-88 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 454 Announced October 3, 2016 Impact critical Products Thunderbird Fixed in Thunderbird 454 ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-86 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 454 Announced September 20, 2016 Impact critical Products Firefox ESR Fixed in Firefox ESR 454 ...