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Ubuntu: USN-3155-1 (CVE-2016-9894): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3155-1 (CVE-2016-9894): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/14/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

A buffer overflow in SkiaGl caused when a GrGLBuffer is truncated during allocation. Later writers will overflow the buffer, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.1.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

  • USN-3155-1
  • USN-3165-1
  • 94883
  • 1037461
  • CVE-2016-9894

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