CVE-2016-2821

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-06-08
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class inMozilla 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.

See more information about CVE-2016-2821 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.1
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1217	2016-06-08
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1217	2016-06-08
Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox)	ELSA-2016-1217	2016-06-08