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Ubuntu: USN-3111-1 (CVE-2016-5287): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3111-1 (CVE-2016-5287): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/27/2016
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

A potentially exploitable use-after-free crash during actor destruction with service workers. This issue does not affect releases earlier than Firefox 49. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 49.0.2.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

  • USN-3111-1
  • 93811
  • 1037077
  • CVE-2016-5287

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