PT-2016-2528

CVE-2016-5255

Published

2016-08-02

Updated

2024-12-12

Description by

CVSS 3.1

8.8

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 48.0

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the js::PreliminaryObjectArray::sweep function. This vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript that is mishandled during incremental garbage collection.

Recommendations For versions prior to 48.0, update to version 48.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers