Use-after-free vulnerability in Web Animations when interacting with cycle collection found through fuzzing. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309198 | issue tracking exploit vendor advisory |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693 | vdb entry third party advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/ | vendor advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95763 | vdb entry third party advisory |