Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3044-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3044-1 advisory. Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially...

USN-3044-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds read during XML parsing 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 obtain sensitive information. CVE-2016-0718...

CVE-2015-0806

The Off Main Thread Compositing OMTC implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 attempts to use memset for a memory region of negative length during interaction with the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code o...

Memory corruption crashes in Off Main Thread Compositing — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two memory corruption crashes during 2D graphics rendering due to problems in Off Main Thread Compositing. These crashes are potentially exploitable...