CVE-2016-5258

NameCVE-2016-5258
DescriptionUse-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-585-1, DSA-3640-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid131.0.3-1fixed
firefox-esr (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)68.9.0esr-1~deb8u2fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch91.11.0esr-1~deb9u1fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)115.12.0esr-1~deb10u1fixed
bullseye115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)128.3.1esr-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm115.14.0esr-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie128.3.1esr-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)48.0-1
firefox-esrsourcewheezy45.3.0esr-1~deb7u1DLA-585-1
firefox-esrsourcejessie45.3.0esr-1~deb8u1DSA-3640-1
firefox-esrsource(unstable)45.3.0esr-1

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-72/

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