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CentOS: (CVE-2016-1965) CESA-2016:0373: firefox

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CentOS: (CVE-2016-1965) CESA-2016:0373: firefox

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/06/2016
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7 mishandle a navigation sequence that returns to the original page, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via vectors involving the history.back method and the location.protocol property.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-firefox

References

  • DSA-3510
  • USN-2917-1
  • USN-2917-2
  • USN-2917-3
  • CVE-2016-1965

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