Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2821

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-06-13 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 23:32:21
Assigner mozilla
State PUBLISHED

Description

Use-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.