CVE-2016-1578

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2955-1

Posted Apr 28, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2955-1 - A use-after-free was discovered when responding synchronously to permission requests. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. An out-of-bounds read was discovered in V8. 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 renderer crash. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-1578, CVE-2016-1646, CVE-2016-1647, CVE-2016-1649, CVE-2016-1653, CVE-2016-1654, CVE-2016-1655, CVE-2016-1659, CVE-2016-3679

SHA-256 | 98d91da3fa3807dd891052480ad6b5a8bd4ff5417450535aa999cbb614b528bf

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