USN-3155-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
USN-3155-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3155-1 13th December, 2016 firefox vulnerabilities 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 Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. If a userwere tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via applicationcrash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9080, CVE-2016-9893,CVE-2016-9894, CVE-2016-9895, CVE-2016-9896, CVE-2016-9897, CVE-2016-9898,CVE-2016-9899, CVE-2016-9900, CVE-2016-9901, CVE-2016-9902, CVE-2016-9903,CVE-2016-9904) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: firefox 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: firefox 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 [ more… ]