CVE-2016-1947

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2880-2

Posted Feb 10, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2880-2 - USN-2880-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced a regression which caused Firefox to crash on startup with some configurations. This update fixes the problem. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, vulnerability

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-1933, CVE-2016-1935, CVE-2016-1937, CVE-2016-1938, CVE-2016-1939, CVE-2016-1942, CVE-2016-1947

SHA-256 | cb3999810b3a4d20a01233e46db43a709e067915cacd6ffbc773f23726fd94fb

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2880-1

Posted Jan 27, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2880-1 - Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Randell Jesup, Nicolas Pierron, Eric Rescorla, Tyson Smith, and Gabor Krizsanits 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 with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-memory crash when loading GIF images in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1931, CVE-2016-1933, CVE-2016-1935, CVE-2016-1937, CVE-2016-1938, CVE-2016-1939, CVE-2016-1942, CVE-2016-1944, CVE-2016-1945, CVE-2016-1946, CVE-2016-1947

SHA-256 | 15dcb61b640228ff99b99cf47350fa53304f54f58f8616c179264e04e1b8ed38

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