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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2021-04-16 | |
| Rule Name: | Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2016-9899) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and removing audio elements due to errors in the handling of node adoption. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6. | |
| Impact: | A use-after-free vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker in the vulnerable product. Successful exploit may cause some adverse consequences, such as crash of the product, execution of arbitrary code. | |
| Affected OS: | Windows, Linux, Others | |
| Reference: | SecurityFocusBID:94885 ExploitDB:41042 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html |
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| The vendor has released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/ |