USN-2880-2: Firefox regression
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2880-2 8th February, 2016 firefox regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary USN-2880-1 introduced a regression in Firefox. Software description firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser Details USN-2880-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced aregression which caused Firefox to crash on startup with some configurations.This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Randell Jesup, Nicolas Pierron, Eric Rescorla, Tyson Smith, and Gabor Krizsanits discovered multiple memory safety issues 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 via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges [ more… ]