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USN-2723-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

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USN-2723-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/27/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/28/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between resize events and changes to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences for a CANVAS element.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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