Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service and obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An use-after-free vulnerability can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service;
2. An unspecified vulnerability can be exploited remotely to obtain sensitive information.

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Technical details

Vulnerability 1 affects only Mozilla Firefox 49 release

Vulnerability 2 affects only Mozilla Firefox 48 and 49 releases

Original advisories

• Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-87

Related products

• Mozilla-Firefox

CVE list

• CVE-2016-5287
  critical
• CVE-2016-5288
  warning

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