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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5261): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 4, 2016
Added
Aug 6, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in the WebSocketChannel class in the WebSockets subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted packets that trigger incorrect buffer-resize operations during buffering.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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