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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-1965: Vulnerability in Firefox

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-1965: Vulnerability in Firefox

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-yasm-1-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-45-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-45-3-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-browser-firefox-45-4-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-data-firefox-bookmarks-45-4-0-0-175-3-14-0-4-0

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