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MFSA2016-66 Firefox: Location bar spoofing via data URLs with malformed/invalid mediatypes (CVE-2016-5251)

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MFSA2016-66 Firefox: Location bar spoofing via data URLs with malformed/invalid mediatypes (CVE-2016-5251)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 allows remote attackers to spoof the location bar via crafted characters in the media type of a data: URL.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-48_0

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