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mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox thunderbird seamonkey CVE #(s):CVE-2016-1931 CVE-2016-1933 CVE-2016-1937 CVE-2016-1938 CVE-2016-1939 CVE-2016-1942 CVE-2016-1944 CVE-2016-1945 CVE-2016-1946 CVE-2016-1947
Created:January 27, 2016 Updated:February 24, 2016
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Randell Jesup, Nicolas Pierron, Eric Rescorla, Tyson Smith, and Gabor Krizsanits 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 with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1931)

Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-memory crash when loading GIF images in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1933)

It was discovered that a delay was missing when focusing the protocol handler dialog. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2016-1937)

Hanno Böck discovered that calculations with mp_div and mp_exptmod in NSS produce incorrect results in some circumstances, resulting in cryptographic weaknesses. (CVE-2016-1938)

Nicholas Hurley discovered that Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cookie names. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cookie injection attacks on some web servers. (CVE-2016-1939)

It was discovered that when certain invalid URLs are pasted in to the addressbar, the addressbar contents may be manipulated to show the location of arbitrary websites. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1942)

Ronald Crane discovered three vulnerabilities through code inspection. 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 with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1944, CVE-2016-1945, CVE-2016-1946)

François Marier discovered that Application Reputation lookups didn't work correctly, disabling warnings for potentially malicious downloads. An attacker could potentially exploit this by tricking a user in to downloading a malicious file. Other parts of the Safe Browsing feature were unaffected by this. (CVE-2016-1947)

Alerts:
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:0306-1 firefox 2016-02-02
Debian DSA-3688-1 nss 2016-10-05
Gentoo 201701-46 nss 2017-01-19
Fedora FEDORA-2016-f2980b4099 firefox 2016-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2016-c12fa80d79 firefox 2016-01-30
Ubuntu USN-2880-1 firefox 2016-01-27
Gentoo 201605-06 nss 2016-05-31
Ubuntu USN-2973-1 thunderbird 2016-05-19
Debian-LTS DLA-480-1 nss 2016-05-18
Debian-LTS DLA-427-1 nss 2016-02-24
Ubuntu USN-2903-2 nss 2016-02-23
Fedora FEDORA-2016-4aeba0f53d thunderbird 2016-02-21
Arch Linux ASA-201602-16 thunderbird 2016-02-21
Ubuntu USN-2903-1 nss 2016-02-17
Ubuntu USN-2880-2 firefox 2016-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:0334-1 MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED, mozilla-nss 2016-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:0338-1 MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, mozilla-nss 2016-02-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:0309-1 firefox 2016-02-02

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