| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-2917-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
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 Jylanki 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 ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities]
Affected Software/OS:
'firefox' package(s) on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
10.0
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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