CVE-2016-9898

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Use-after-free resulting in potentially exploitable crash when manipulating DOM subtrees in the Editor. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1, Firefox ESR < 45.6, and Thunderbird < 45.6.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 50.1
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	>= unspecified, < 45.6
Mozilla	Thunderbird	>= unspecified, < 45.6

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314442Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3757Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-96/Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94885Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037461Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314442Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3757Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-94/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-95/Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-96/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 11, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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