Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox regression
Informations
Name USN-3216-2 First vendor Publication 2017-03-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-03-30
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:

USN-3216-1 introduced a regression in Firefox.

Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

USN-3216-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update resulted in a startup crash when Firefox is used with XRDP. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory 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 bypass same origin restrictions, obtain
sensitive information, spoof the addressbar, spoof the print dialog,
cause a denial of service via application crash or hang, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5399, CVE-2017-5400,
CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5403, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405,
CVE-2017-5406, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5412,
CVE-2017-5413, CVE-2017-5414, CVE-2017-5415, CVE-2017-5416, CVE-2017-5417,
CVE-2017-5418, CVE-2017-5419, CVE-2017-5420, CVE-2017-5421, CVE-2017-5422,
CVE-2017-5426, CVE-2017-5427)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
firefox 52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
firefox 52.0.2+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-3216-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3216-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1671079

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3216-2

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Date Informations
2017-04-01 13:25:06
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-31 00:23:36
  • First insertion