USN-3315-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
USN-3315-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3315-1 15th June, 2017 firefox vulnerabilities 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 weretricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, read uninitializedmemory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar contents, orexecute 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 byFirefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,an attacker could [ more… ]