USN-5614-1 fixed a vulnerability in Wayland. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Wayland incorrectly handled reference counting certain objects. An attacker could use this issue to cause Wayland to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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