CVE-2016-5256

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3076-1

Posted Sep 22, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3076-1 - Atte Kettunen discovered an out-of-bounds read when handling certain Content Security Policy directives in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Nathan Froyd, Honza Bambas, Seth Fowler, Michael Smith, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, and Carsten Book discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-2827, CVE-2016-5256, CVE-2016-5257, CVE-2016-5270, CVE-2016-5271, CVE-2016-5272, CVE-2016-5273, CVE-2016-5274, CVE-2016-5275, CVE-2016-5276, CVE-2016-5277, CVE-2016-5278, CVE-2016-5279, CVE-2016-5280, CVE-2016-5281, CVE-2016-5282, CVE-2016-5283, CVE-2016-5284

SHA-256 | a176f5668e49d8890e407bdb612c94f7ed9a0baff2d6296e635a3a8bdc5f753b

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