CVE-2016-5251

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3044-1

Posted Aug 5, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3044-1 - Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or obtain sensitive information. Toni Huttunen discovered that once a favicon is requested from a site, the remote server can keep the network connection open even after the page is closed. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to track users, resulting in information disclosure. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, info disclosure

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-0718, CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2835, CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-2837, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-2839, CVE-2016-5250, CVE-2016-5251, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5255, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5260, CVE-2016-5261, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265, CVE-2016-5266, CVE-2016-5268

SHA-256 | 107aea46d43767c24d152b35ee26b6d29d2d088ed48f4b1e3d272428623578a4

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