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Ubuntu: USN-3044-1 (CVE-2016-5251): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3044-1 (CVE-2016-5251): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/06/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 allows remote attackers to spoof the location bar via crafted characters in the media type of a data: URL.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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