UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1964
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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1964
Published: 8 Mar 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
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Summary:
Details: Use-after-free vulnerability in the AtomicBaseIncDec function in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging mishandling of XML transformations.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1964, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-27/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2917-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2934-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1964
Affected packages
Package
Name: firefox
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Affected versions
24.0+build1-0ubuntu1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
