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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-2839): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 4, 2016
Added
Aug 6, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 on Linux make cairo _cairo_surface_get_extents calls that do not properly interact with libav header allocation in FFmpeg 0.10, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted video.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
Title
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