Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a script that closes its own Service Worker within a nested sync event loop.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.939Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-5259

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:15.097

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

Link: CVE-2016-5259

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

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

Links: CVE-2016-5259 - Bugzilla