Bug 1404089 (CVE-2016-9898) - CVE-2016-9898 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Editor while manipulating DOM subtrees (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)
Summary: CVE-2016-9898 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Editor while manipulating DOM subtre...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-9898
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1403856
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-13 03:07 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 20:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-19 04:47:39 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2946 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2016-12-14 15:01:08 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-13 03:07:54 UTC 
Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-95/#CVE-2016-9898


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Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-14 10:02:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html
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