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CVE-2016-2812

Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers (MFSA 2016-42)

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 26, 2016

Updated · January 9, 2026

Description

Race condition in the get implementation in the ServiceWorkerManager class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted web site.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified