Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3140-1 First vendor Publication 2016-11-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-11-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

It was discovered that data: URLs can inherit the wrong origin after a HTTP redirect in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2016-9078)

A use-after-free was discovered in SVG animations. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9079)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.10:
firefox 50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
firefox 50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3140-1
CVE-2016-9078, CVE-2016-9079

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3140-1

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Date Informations
2016-12-02 13:24:59
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-01 09:23:20
  • First insertion