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MFSA2016-85 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49 (CVE-2016-5271)

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MFSA2016-85 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 49 (CVE-2016-5271)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/25/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The PropertyProvider::GetSpacingInternal function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via text runs in conjunction with a "display: contents" Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) property.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-49_0

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