CVE-2016-1961

Mozilla: Use-after-free in SetBody (MFSA 2016-24)

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 8, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLDocument::SetBody function in dom/html/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging mishandling of a root element, aka ZDI-CAN-3574.

CVSS score applicability

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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