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CVE-2016-9079 — Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird Use-After-Free Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2016-9079

CVE-2016-9079: Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Vendor / project Mozilla
Product Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird
Date added 2023-06-22
Due date 2023-07-13
Ransomware campaign use Unknown

Description

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird contain a use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation, targeting Firefox and Tor browser users on Windows.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92/#CVE-2016-9079; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9079

References

  • NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9079
  • KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog