cve/2016/CVE-2016-1961.md

CVE-2016-1961

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249377

Github

• https://github.com/hwiwonl/dayone