CVE-2016-9079
Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird Use-After-Free Vulnerability
What is affected
| Vendor | Mozilla |
|---|---|
| Product | Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird |
| Weakness | CWE-416 |
The vulnerability
Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird contain a use-after-free vulnerability in SVG Animation, targeting Firefox and Tor browser users on Windows.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 13 July 2023 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.
Where this comes from
Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 21:26. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.
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