CVE-2016-2832 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2832?

CVE-2016-2832 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Jun 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 allows remote attackers to discover the list of disabled plugins via a fingerprinting attack involving Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) pseudo-classes.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2832?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2832?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2832 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2832 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5j93-vr94-vf49, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2832.