Arbitrary Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2016-1966 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function in dom/plugins/base/nsJSNPRuntime.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and memory corruption) via a crafted NPAPI plugin.

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