Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Element Class

CVE-2016-2821 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::Element class in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2, when contenteditable mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering deletion of DOM elements that were created in the editor.

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