CVE-2016-1959

Mozilla: Service Worker Manager out-of-bounds read in Service Worker Manager (MFSA 2016-22)

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 8, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The ServiceWorkerManager class in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and memory corruption) via unspecified use of the Clients API.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified