Mozilla Firefox CVE-2016-5255 Use After Free Vulnerability

Description

Security researcher Jukka Jylnki reported a use-after-free in JavaScript caused by how objects and pointers are handled during incremental garbage collection in some circumstances working with object groups. When triggered, this causes a potential exploitable crash but is mitigated by the difficulties in controlling the crash and its output.

Affected Applications

Firefox

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