CVE-2016-9898
Critical
CVE-2016-9898
Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.
Exploit probability
3.6%
Published
June 11, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-9898
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Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314442
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3757
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-96/