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CVE-2016-5258 PUBLISHED

Use-after-free vulnerability in the WebRTC socket thread in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect free operations on DTLS objects during the shutdown of a WebRTC session.

EPSS 1.10% · 77.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.10%

77.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	firefox	0, 24.0+build1-0ubuntu1, 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	firefox	0, 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1, 42.0+build2-0ubuntu1

Timeline

Aug 3, 2016 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 19, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5258 third-party-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-72/ third-party-advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279146 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3044-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5258 third-party-advisory

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