USN-2917-1

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2917-1

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2917-1.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/USN-2917-1

Related

Published

2016-03-09T15:28:50.634167Z

Modified

2016-03-09T15:28:50.634167Z

Summary

firefox vulnerabilities

Details

Francis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS. 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1950)

Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup, Carsten Book, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Tyson Smith, Andrea Marchesini, and Jukka Jylänki 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. (CVE-2016-1952, CVE-2016-1953)

Nicolas Golubovic discovered that CSP violation reports can be used to overwrite local files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website with addon signing disabled and unpacked addons installed, an attacker could potentially exploit this to gain additional privileges. (CVE-2016-1954)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP violation reports contained full paths for cross-origin iframe navigations. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential data. (CVE-2016-1955)

Ucha Gobejishvili discovered that performing certain WebGL operations resulted in memory resource exhaustion with some Intel GPUs, requiring a reboot. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1956)

Jose Martinez and Romina Santillan discovered a memory leak in libstagefright during MPEG4 video file processing 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 memory exhaustion. (CVE-2016-1957)

Abdulrahman Alqabandi discovered that the addressbar could be blank or filled with page defined content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1958)

Looben Yang discovered an out-of-bounds read in Service Worker Manager. 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1959)

A use-after-free was discovered in the HTML5 string parser. 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1960)

A use-after-free was discovered in the SetBody function of HTMLDocument. 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1961)

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux discovered a use-after-free when using multiple WebRTC data channels. 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1962)

It was discovered that Firefox crashes when local files are modified whilst being read by the FileReader API. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1963)

Nicolas Grégoire discovered a use-after-free during XML transformations. 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1964)

Tsubasa Iinuma discovered a mechanism to cause the addressbar to display an incorrect URL, using history navigations and the Location protocol property. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1965)

A memory corruption issues was discovered in the NPAPI subsystem. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website with a malicious plugin installed, 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 Firefox. (CVE-2016-1966)

Jordi Chancel discovered a same-origin-policy bypass when using performance.getEntries and history navigation with session restore. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential data. (CVE-2016-1967)

Luke Li discovered a buffer overflow during Brotli decompression 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1968)

Ronald Crane discovered a use-after-free in GetStaticInstance in WebRTC. 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1973)

Ronald Crane discovered an out-of-bounds read following a failed allocation in the HTML parser 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 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1974)

Holger Fuhrmannek, Tyson Smith and Holger Fuhrmannek reported multiple memory safety issues in the Graphite 2 library. 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. (CVE-2016-1977, CVE-2016-2790, CVE-2016-2791, CVE-2016-2792, CVE-2016-2793, CVE-2016-2794, CVE-2016-2795, CVE-2016-2796, CVE-2016-2797, CVE-2016-2798, CVE-2016-2799, CVE-2016-2800, CVE-2016-2801, CVE-2016-2802)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name: firefox
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

24.*

24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

25.*

25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

28.*

28.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu2

28.0+build1-0ubuntu1

28.0+build2-0ubuntu1

28.0+build2-0ubuntu2

29.*

29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

30.*

30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

31.*

31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

32.*

32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

33.*

33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

34.*

34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

35.*

35.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

36.*

36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

37.*

37.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

38.*

38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

39.*

39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

40.*

40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

41.*

41.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

41.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

42.*

42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

43.*

43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

43.0.4+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

44.*

44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

44.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

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