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Ubuntu: USN-2893-1 (CVE-2016-1949): Firefox vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-2893-1 (CVE-2016-1949): Firefox vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/12/2016
Modified
11/08/2024

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 44.0.2 does not properly restrict the interaction between Service Workers and plugins, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site that triggers spoofed responses to requests that use NPAPI, as demonstrated by a request for a crossdomain.xml file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

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