CVE-2016-2821

Summary

CVECVE-2016-2821
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-06-13 10:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-30 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2, when contenteditable mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering deletion of DOM elements that were created in the editor.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.1 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr 45.1.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Bypass Security Restrictions, and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information and Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3600-1 firefox-esr DEBIAN www.debian.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:1691-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Use-after-free deleting tables from a contenteditable document — Mozilla CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
1271460 – (CVE-2016-2821) Heap-use-after-free mozilla::dom::Element::UpdateLinkState CONFIRM bugzilla.mozilla.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1557-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
USN-2993-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:1552-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690285 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mozilla (8065d37b-8e7c-4707-a608-1b0a2b8509c3)
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