ubuntu · CVE-2016-2819

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-06-08 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:58:52 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2819 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (firefox, thunderbird), 10 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): released 5, not-affected 4, DNE 1.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via foreign-context HTML5 fragments, as demonstrated by fragments within an SVG element.

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