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CVE-2016-5254

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 exe…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MozillaFirefox
through 47.0.1
Versions 45.1.0, 45.1.1, 45.2.0, 45.3.0
OracleLinux
Versions 5.0, 6, 7

Weakness classification

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