USN-3435-2: Firefox regression
USN-3435-2: Firefox regression Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3435-2 4th October, 2017 firefox regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary USN-3435-1 caused a regression in Firefox. Software description firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser Details USN-3435-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused the Flashplugin to crash in some circumstances. 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 read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, bypass phishing and malware protection, spoof the origin in modal dialogs, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7793, CVE-2017-7810, CVE-2017-7811, CVE-2017-7812, [ more… ]