Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Vulnerability in nsHTMLDocument::SetBody Function

CVE-2016-1961 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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