{"id":"USN-3124-1","summary":"firefox vulnerabilities","details":"Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard,\nJan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan\nAkhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple\nmemory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a\nspecially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to\ncause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary\ncode. (CVE-2016-5289, CVE-2016-5290)\n\nA same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some\ncircumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain\nsensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)\n\nA crash was discovered when parsing URLs in some circumstances. If a user\nwere tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could\npotentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5292)\n\nA heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG\ncontent. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,\nan attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service\nvia application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5296)\n\nAn error was discovered in argument length checking in Javascript. If a\nuser were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker\ncould potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5297)\n\nAn integer overflow was discovered in the Expat library. If a user were\ntricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could\npotentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash. (CVE-2016-9063)\n\nIt was discovered that addon updates failed to verify that the addon ID\ninside the signed package matched the ID of the addon being updated.\nAn attacker that could perform a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack could\npotentially exploit this to provide malicious addon updates.\n(CVE-2016-9064)\n\nA buffer overflow was discovered in nsScriptLoadHandler. If a user were\ntricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could\npotentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9066)\n\n2 use-after-free bugs were discovered during DOM operations in some\ncircumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nwebsite, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of\nservice via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9067,\nCVE-2016-9069)\n\nA heap use-after-free was discovered during web animations in some\ncircumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nwebsite, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of\nservice via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9068)\n\nIt was discovered that a page loaded in to the sidebar through a bookmark\ncould reference a privileged chrome window. An attacker could potentially\nexploit this to bypass same origin restrictions. (CVE-2016-9070)\n\nAn issue was discovered with Content Security Policy (CSP) in combination\nwith HTTP to HTTPS redirection. An attacker could potentially exploit this\nto verify whether a site is within the user's browsing history.\n(CVE-2016-9071)\n\nAn issue was discovered with the windows.create() WebExtensions API. If a\nuser were tricked in to installing a malicious extension, an attacker\ncould potentially exploit this to escape the WebExtensions sandbox.\n(CVE-2016-9073)\n\nIt was discovered that WebExtensions can use the mozAddonManager API. An\nattacker could potentially exploit this to install additional extensions\nwithout user permission. (CVE-2016-9075)\n\nIt was discovered that \u003cselect\u003e element dropdown menus can cover location\nbar content when e10s is enabled. An attacker could potentially exploit\nthis to conduct UI spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-9076)\n\nIt was discovered that canvas allows the use of the feDisplacementMap\nfilter on cross-origin images. An attacker could potentially exploit this\nto conduct timing attacks. (CVE-2016-9077)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:28:49.464261Z","published":"2016-11-19T00:07:46Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5289","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5290","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5291","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5292","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5296","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5297","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9063","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9064","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9066","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9067","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9068","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9069","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9070","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9071","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9073","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9075","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9076","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9077"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-5289","CVE-2016-5290","CVE-2016-5291","CVE-2016-5292","CVE-2016-5296","CVE-2016-5297","CVE-2016-9063","CVE-2016-9064","CVE-2016-9066","CVE-2016-9067","CVE-2016-9068","CVE-2016-9069","CVE-2016-9070","CVE-2016-9071","CVE-2016-9073","CVE-2016-9075","CVE-2016-9076","CVE-2016-9077","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5289","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5290","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5291","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5292","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5296","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5297","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9063","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9064","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9066","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9067","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9068","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9069","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9070","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9071","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9073","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9075","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9076","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9077"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3124-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5289"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5290"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5291"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5292"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5296"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5297"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9063"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9064"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9066"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9067"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9068"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9069"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9070"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9071"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9073"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9075"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9076"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9077"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"firefox","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2"}]}],"versions":["24.0+build1-0ubuntu1","25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1","28.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu2","28.0+build1-0ubuntu1","28.0+build2-0ubuntu1","28.0+build2-0ubuntu2","29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3","31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","35.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4","36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","37.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4","40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","41.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","41.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","43.0.4+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","44.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","45.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","46.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","46.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3","47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","48.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","49.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","49.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","binary_name":"firefox"},{"binary_version":"50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","binary_name":"firefox-globalmenu"},{"binary_version":"50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","binary_name":"firefox-mozsymbols"},{"binary_version":"50.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2","binary_name":"firefox-testsuite"}],"availability":"No 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