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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-5265: ELSA-2016-1551: firefox security update (CRITICAL)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 2, 2016
Added
Aug 6, 2016
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks or read arbitrary files, by arranging for the presence of a crafted HTML document and a crafted shortcut file in the same local directory.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-firefox
Title
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