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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-2811): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-2811): Firefox regression

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/30/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/30/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ServiceWorkerInfo class in the Service Worker subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the BeginReading method.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gtk3-engines-oxygen

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