USN-2917-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1950)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2016-03-09 15:28 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source websiteFrancis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1950)
Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup, Carsten Book, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Tyson Smith, Andrea Marchesini, and Jukka Jylänki 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-2016-1952, CVE-2016-1953)
Nicolas Golubovic discovered that CSP violation reports can be used to overwrite local files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website with addon signing disabled and unpacked addons installed, an attacker could potentially exploit this to gain additional privileges. (CVE-2016-1954)
Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP violation reports contained full paths for cross-origin iframe navigations. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential data. (CVE-2016-1955)
Ucha Gobejishvili discovered that performing certain WebGL operations resulted in memory resource exhaustion with some Intel GPUs, requiring a reboot. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1956)
Jose Martinez and Romina Santillan discovered a memory leak in libstagefright during MPEG4 video file processing in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion. (CVE-2016-1957)
Abdulrahman Alqabandi discovered that the addressbar could be blank or filled with page defined content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1958)
Looben Yang discovered an out-of-bounds read in Service Worker Manager. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1959)
A use-after-free was discovered in the HTML5 string parser. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1960)
A use-after-free was discovered in the SetBody function of HTMLDocument. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1961)
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux discovered a use-after-free when using multiple WebRTC data channels. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1962)
It was discovered that Firefox crashes when local files are modified whilst being read by the FileReader API. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1963)
Nicolas Grégoire discovered a use-after-free during XML transformations. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1964)
Tsubasa Iinuma discovered a mechanism to cause the addressbar to display an incorrect URL, using history navigations and the Location protocol property. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1965)
A memory corruption issues was discovered in the NPAPI subsystem. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website with a malicious plugin installed, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1966)
Jordi Chancel discovered a same-origin-policy bypass when using performance.getEntries and history navigation with session restore. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential data. (CVE-2016-1967)
Luke Li discovered a buffer overflow during Brotli decompression in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1968)
Ronald Crane discovered a use-after-free in GetStaticInstance in WebRTC. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1973)
Ronald Crane discovered an out-of-bounds read following a failed allocation in the HTML parser in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1974)
Holger Fuhrmannek, Tyson Smith and Holger Fuhrmannek reported multiple memory safety issues in the Graphite 2 library. 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-2016-1977, CVE-2016-2790, CVE-2016-2791, CVE-2016-2792, CVE-2016-2793, CVE-2016-2794, CVE-2016-2795, CVE-2016-2796, CVE-2016-2797, CVE-2016-2798, CVE-2016-2799, CVE-2016-2800, CVE-2016-2801, CVE-2016-2802)
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"id": "CVE-2016-1964",
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"id": "CVE-2016-1965",
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"id": "CVE-2016-1967",
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"id": "CVE-2016-1968",
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
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"id": "CVE-2016-1973",
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"id": "CVE-2016-1974",
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"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"type": "Ubuntu"
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"id": "CVE-2016-1977",
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"id": "CVE-2016-2790",
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"id": "CVE-2016-2791",
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"id": "CVE-2016-2792",
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"id": "CVE-2016-2793",
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"id": "CVE-2016-2795",
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"id": "CVE-2016-2796",
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"id": "CVE-2016-2797",
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"id": "CVE-2016-2800",
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"details": "Francis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS.\nIf a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an\nattacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1950)\n\nBob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel\nHolbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup, Carsten Book, Gian-Carlo Pascutto,\nTyson Smith, Andrea Marchesini, and Jukka Jyl\u00e4nki 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 code\nwith the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1952,\nCVE-2016-1953)\n\nNicolas Golubovic discovered that CSP violation reports can be used to\noverwrite local files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially\ncrafted website with addon signing disabled and unpacked addons installed,\nan attacker could potentially exploit this to gain additional privileges.\n(CVE-2016-1954)\n\nMuneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP violation reports contained full\npaths for cross-origin iframe navigations. An attacker could potentially\nexploit this to steal confidential data. (CVE-2016-1955)\n\nUcha Gobejishvili discovered that performing certain WebGL operations\nresulted in memory resource exhaustion with some Intel GPUs, requiring\na reboot. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nwebsite, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial\nof service. (CVE-2016-1956)\n\nJose Martinez and Romina Santillan discovered a memory leak in\nlibstagefright during MPEG4 video file processing in some circumstances.\nIf a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an\nattacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\nmemory exhaustion. (CVE-2016-1957)\n\nAbdulrahman Alqabandi discovered that the addressbar could be blank or\nfilled with page defined content in some circumstances. If a user were\ntricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could\npotentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1958)\n\nLooben Yang discovered an out-of-bounds read in Service Worker Manager. If\na user 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 with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1959)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered in the HTML5 string parser. 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 with the privileges of the user invoking\nFirefox. (CVE-2016-1960)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered in the SetBody function of HTMLDocument.\nIf a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an\nattacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1961)\n\nDominique Haza\u00ebl-Massieux discovered a use-after-free when using multiple\nWebRTC data channels. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially\ncrafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a\ndenial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with\nthe privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1962)\n\nIt was discovered that Firefox crashes when local files are modified\nwhilst being read by the FileReader API. If a user were tricked in to\nopening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit\nthis to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking\nFirefox. (CVE-2016-1963)\n\nNicolas Gr\u00e9goire discovered a use-after-free during XML transformations.\nIf a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an\nattacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1964)\n\nTsubasa Iinuma discovered a mechanism to cause the addressbar to display\nan incorrect URL, using history navigations and the Location protocol\nproperty. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted\nwebsite, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL\nspoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1965)\n\nA memory corruption issues was discovered in the NPAPI subsystem. If\na user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website with a\nmalicious plugin installed, an attacker could potentially exploit this\nto cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary\ncode with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1966)\n\nJordi Chancel discovered a same-origin-policy bypass when using\nperformance.getEntries and history navigation with session restore. If\na user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker\ncould potentially exploit this to steal confidential data. (CVE-2016-1967)\n\nLuke Li discovered a buffer overflow during Brotli decompression 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 with the\nprivileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1968)\n\nRonald Crane discovered a use-after-free in GetStaticInstance in WebRTC.\nIf a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an\nattacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1973)\n\nRonald Crane discovered an out-of-bounds read following a failed\nallocation in the HTML parser in some circumstances. 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 with the privileges of the user invoking\nFirefox. (CVE-2016-1974)\n\nHolger Fuhrmannek, Tyson Smith and Holger Fuhrmannek reported multiple\nmemory safety issues in the Graphite 2 library. If a user were tricked in\nto opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially\nexploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or\nexecute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.\n(CVE-2016-1977, CVE-2016-2790, CVE-2016-2791, CVE-2016-2792,\nCVE-2016-2793, CVE-2016-2794, CVE-2016-2795, CVE-2016-2796, CVE-2016-2797,\nCVE-2016-2798, CVE-2016-2799, CVE-2016-2800, CVE-2016-2801, CVE-2016-2802)\n",
"id": "USN-2917-1",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
"published": "2016-03-09T15:28:50Z",
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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