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Ubuntu: USN-3076-1 (CVE-2016-5282): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3076-1 (CVE-2016-5282): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/22/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 does not properly restrict the scheme in favicon requests, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by a jar: URL for a favicon resource.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

  • USN-3076-1
  • USN-3112-1
  • 93052
  • 1036852
  • GLSA-201701-15
  • CVE-2016-5282

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