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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5271): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Sep 22, 2016

Added

Sep 22, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

The PropertyProvider::GetSpacingInternal function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via text runs in conjunction with a "display: contents" Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) property.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

CVE-2016-5271
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-5271
CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2016-6222
NVD-CVE-2016-5271
UBUNTU-USN-3076-1
UBUNTU-USN-3112-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-6222

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