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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-5278: firefox-esr Security vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-5278: firefox-esr Security vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
06/13/2018

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted image data that is mishandled during the encoding of an image frame to an image.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-firefox-esr

References

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