High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-5258
CVE-2016-5258
Description
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.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
11- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue Tracking
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-72.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/92258nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15nvd
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