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mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox seamonkey CVE #(s):CVE-2016-2804 CVE-2016-2811 CVE-2016-2812 CVE-2016-2816 CVE-2016-2817 CVE-2016-2820
Created:April 27, 2016 Updated:April 27, 2016
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Phil Ringalda, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Randell Jesup, Andrew McCreight, and Steve Fink 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-2016-2804, CVE-2016-2806, CVE-2016-2807)

Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free and buffer overflow in service workers. 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-2016-2811, CVE-2016-2812)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP is not applied correctly to web content sent with the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks when they would otherwise be prevented. (CVE-2016-2816)

Muneaki Nishimura discovered that the chrome.tabs.update API for web extensions allows for navigation to javascript: URLs. A malicious extension could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2016-2817)

Mark Goodwin discovered that about:healthreport accepts certain events from any content present in the remote-report iframe. If another vulnerability allowed the injection of web content in the remote-report iframe, an attacker could potentially exploit this to change the user's sharing preferences. (CVE-2016-2820)

Alerts:
Gentoo 201701-15 firefox thunderbird 2017-01-04
Gentoo 201701-15 firefox 2017-01-03
Arch Linux ASA-201605-21 thunderbird 2016-05-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1251-1 firefox 2016-05-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:1211-1 firefox, nss 2016-05-04
Ubuntu USN-2936-2 firefox 2016-05-02
Arch Linux ASA-201604-15 firefox 2016-04-30
Ubuntu USN-2936-1 firefox 2016-04-27

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