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Debian: CVE-2016-1968: brotli, firefox-esr -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Integer underflow in Brotli, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via crafted data with brotli compression.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-brotlidebian-upgrade-firefox-esr
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