USN-2936-1

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2936-1
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2936-1.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/USN-2936-1
Related
Published
2016-04-27T12:24:50.515434Z
Modified
2016-04-27T12:24:50.515434Z
Summary
firefox vulnerabilities
Details

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. (CVE-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807)

An invalid write was discovered when using the JavaScript .watch() method 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-2016-2808)

Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free and buffer overflow in service workers. 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-2016-2811, CVE-2016-2812)

Sascha Just discovered a buffer overflow in libstagefright 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-2016-2814)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP is not applied correctly to web content sent with the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks when they would otherwise be prevented. (CVE-2016-2816)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that the chrome.tabs.update API for web extensions allows for navigation to javascript: URLs. A malicious extension could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2016-2817)

Mark Goodwin discovered that about:healthreport accepts certain events from any content present in the remote-report iframe. If another vulnerability allowed the injection of web content in the remote-report iframe, an attacker could potentially exploit this to change the user's sharing preferences. (CVE-2016-2820)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name
firefox
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2?arch=src?distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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

45.*

45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

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            "firefox-locale-sq": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
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            "firefox-locale-tr": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-br": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-et": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-ast": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-th": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-da": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-fi": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-ku": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-mn": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-ru": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-mk": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-bg": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-hu": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-gu": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-bn": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-ml": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-an": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-be": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-eu": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-fr": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-pa": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-as": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "firefox-locale-lv": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
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            "firefox-locale-ta": "46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
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Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name
firefox
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.2?arch=src?distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Affected versions

41.*

41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1

42.*

42.0+build2-0ubuntu1

44.*

44.0+build3-0ubuntu2
44.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1
44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

45.*

45.0+build2-0ubuntu1
45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1
45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

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