FKIE_CVE-2016-1964
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-03-13 18:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:42
Severity
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the AtomicBaseIncDec function in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging mishandling of XML transformations.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| oracle | linux | 5.0 | |
| oracle | linux | 6 | |
| oracle | linux | 7 | |
| opensuse | leap | 42.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.2 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise | 12.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | * | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.0.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.0.5 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.1.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.1.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.2.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.2.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.3.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.4.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.5.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.5.1 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.6.0 | |
| mozilla | firefox | 38.6.1 | |
| mozilla | thunderbird | * |
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