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HistoryDec 18, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox HTMLVideoElement Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2015-12-1800:00:00
Anonymous
www.zerodayinitiative.com
21

EPSS

0.215

Percentile

96.5%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of media objects. By manipulating a document’s elements an attacker can cause a HTMLVideoElement object in memory to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current process.