USN-3044-1

Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds read during XML parsing 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, or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-0718)

Toni Huttunen discovered that once a favicon is requested from a site, the remote server can keep the network connection open even after the page is closed. A remote attacked could potentially exploit this to track users, resulting in information disclosure. (CVE-2016-2830)

Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Byron Campen, Julian Seward, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda 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. (CVE-2016-2835, CVE-2016-2836)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback. 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 plugin process crash, or, in combination with another vulnerability to escape the GMP sandbox, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2837)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow when rendering SVG content 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2838)

Bert Massop discovered a crash in Cairo with version 0.10 of FFmpeg. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2839)

Catalin Dumitru discovered that URLs of resources loaded after a navigation start could be leaked to the following page via the Resource Timing API. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5250)

Firas Salem discovered an issue with non-ASCII and emoji characters in data: URLs. An attacker could potentially exploit this to spoof the addressbar contents. (CVE-2016-5251)

Georg Koppen discovered a stack buffer underflow during 2D graphics rendering 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5252)

Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free when the alt key is used with top-level menus. 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5254)

Jukka Jylänki discovered a crash during garbage collection. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5255)

Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free in WebRTC. 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5258)

Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free when working with nested sync events in service workers. 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5259)

Mike Kaply discovered that plain-text passwords can be stored in session restore if an input field type is changed from "password" to "text" during a session, leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2016-5260)

Samuel Groß discovered an integer overflow in WebSockets during data buffering 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5261)

Nikita Arykov discovered that JavaScript event handlers on a <marquee> element can execute in a sandboxed iframe without the allow-scripts flag set. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2016-5262)

A type confusion bug was discovered in display transformation during rendering. 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5263)

A use-after-free was discovered when applying effects to SVG elements 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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5264)

Abdulrahman Alqabandi discovered a same-origin policy violation relating to local HTML files and saved shortcut files. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5265)

Rafael Gieschke discovered an information disclosure issue related to drag and drop. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5266)

A text injection issue was discovered with about: URLs. An attacker could potentially exploit this to spoof internal error pages. (CVE-2016-5268)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name: firefox
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

24.*

24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

25.*

25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

28.*

28.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu2

28.0+build1-0ubuntu1

28.0+build2-0ubuntu1

28.0+build2-0ubuntu2

29.*

29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

30.*

30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

31.*

31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

32.*

32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

33.*

33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

34.*

34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

35.*

35.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

36.*

36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

37.*

37.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

38.*

38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

39.*

39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

40.*

40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

41.*

41.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

41.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

42.*

42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

43.*

43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

43.0.4+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

44.*

44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

44.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

45.*

45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

46.*

46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

46.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

47.*

47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-dev",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-0718",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2830",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2835",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2836",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2837",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2838",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2839",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5250",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5251",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5252",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5254",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5255",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5258",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5259",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5260",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5261",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5262",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5263",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5264",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5265",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5266",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5268",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name: firefox
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Affected versions

41.*

41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1

42.*

42.0+build2-0ubuntu1

44.*

44.0+build3-0ubuntu2

44.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1

44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

45.*

45.0+build2-0ubuntu1

45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1

45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1

46.*

46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

46.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

47.*

47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-dev",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-0718",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2830",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2835",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2836",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2837",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2838",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-2839",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5250",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5251",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5252",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5254",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5255",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5258",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5259",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5260",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5261",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5262",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
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