CVE-2016-5289

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3124-1

Posted Nov 19, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3124-1 - Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-5289, CVE-2016-5290, CVE-2016-5291, CVE-2016-5292, CVE-2016-5296, CVE-2016-5297, CVE-2016-9063, CVE-2016-9064, CVE-2016-9066, CVE-2016-9067, CVE-2016-9068, CVE-2016-9069, CVE-2016-9070, CVE-2016-9071, CVE-2016-9073, CVE-2016-9075, CVE-2016-9076, CVE-2016-9077

SHA-256 | 186fc72529bc55503b5bee038a51d2256f957a0adfbd4fa065e59591da446ee3

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