CVE-2016-2812

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2936-1

Posted Apr 28, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2936-1 - Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Phil Ringalda, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Randell Jesup, Andrew McCreight, and Steve Fink 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807, CVE-2016-2808, CVE-2016-2811, CVE-2016-2812, CVE-2016-2814, CVE-2016-2816, CVE-2016-2817, CVE-2016-2820, CVE-2018-2817

SHA-256 | 72de8bd9f672f0da0f03941e20b339aa30efeab5c6302718862f00e934ebad4a

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