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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-1965): Firefox regressions

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-1965): Firefox regressions

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/13/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

  • USN-2917-1
  • USN-2917-2
  • USN-2917-3
  • DSA-3510
  • CVE-2016-1965

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