USN-3216-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
USN-3216-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3216-1 7th March, 2017 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 issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user weretricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to bypass same origin restrictions, obtainsensitive information, spoof the addressbar, spoof the print dialog,cause a denial of service via application crash or hang, or executearbitrary 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 [ more… ]