N/A - USN-3315-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Firefox vulnerabilities

Informations
Name	USN-3315-1	First vendor Publication	2017-06-15
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2017-06-15
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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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 17.04 - Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 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:

Multiple security issues were discovered 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, read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar contents, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5471, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754, CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7762, CVE-2017-7764)

Multiple security issues were discovered in the Graphite 2 library used by 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, read uninitialized memory, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775, CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
firefox 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.10:
firefox 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3315-1
CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5471, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749,
CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754,
CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7762,
CVE-2017-7764, CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773,
CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775, CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777,
CVE-2017-7778

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1