Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsXULPopupManager::KeyDown function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) by leveraging keyboard access to use the Alt key during selection of top-level menu items.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2016-08-05T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.982Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5254

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:12.017

Modified: 2019-12-27T16:08:55.810

Link: CVE-2016-5254

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5254 - Bugzilla