CVE-2015-7221

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2833-1

Posted Dec 16, 2015

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2833-1 - Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Eric Rahm, Robert Kaiser, Harald Kirschner, and Michael Henretty 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. Ronald Crane discovered three buffer overflows 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2015-7201, CVE-2015-7202, CVE-2015-7203, CVE-2015-7204, CVE-2015-7205, CVE-2015-7207, CVE-2015-7208, CVE-2015-7210, CVE-2015-7211, CVE-2015-7212, CVE-2015-7213, CVE-2015-7214, CVE-2015-7215, CVE-2015-7216, CVE-2015-7217, CVE-2015-7218, CVE-2015-7219, CVE-2015-7220, CVE-2015-7221, CVE-2015-7222, CVE-2015-7223

SHA-256 | 81135bc5bdd8472f00b9d5a64dfbc2154e0772b8ca74ea51bc9d31d70ae16f35

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