USN-3260-1: Firefox vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
21st April, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were A flaw was discovered in the DRBG number generation in NSS. If an The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following To update your system, please follow these instructions: After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make CVE-2017-5429<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5430<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5432<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5433<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5434<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5435<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5436<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5437<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5438<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5439<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5440<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5441<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5442<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5443<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5444<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5445<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5446<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5447<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5448<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5449<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5451<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5453<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5454<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5455<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5456<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5458<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5459<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5460<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5461<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5462<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5464<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5465<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5466<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5467<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5468<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-5469<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3260-1: Firefox vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3260-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3260-1 21st April, 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 read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitiveinformation, spoof the addressbar contents or other UI elements, escapethe sandbox to read local files, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)attacks, cause a denial of service via application crash, or executearbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5430, CVE-2017-5432,CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5437,CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442,CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447,CVE-2017-5448, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451, CVE-2017-5453, CVE-2017-5454,CVE-2017-5455, CVE-2017-5456, [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15698,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}firefox vulnerabilities<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
\nopened a malicious website.\n<\/p>\nSoftware description<\/h3>\n
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\n – Mozilla Open Source web browser<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive
information, spoof the addressbar contents or other UI elements, escape
the sandbox to read local files, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5429<\/a>, CVE-2017-5430<\/a>, CVE-2017-5432<\/a>,
CVE-2017-5433<\/a>, CVE-2017-5434<\/a>, CVE-2017-5435<\/a>, CVE-2017-5436<\/a>, CVE-2017-5437<\/a>,
CVE-2017-5438<\/a>, CVE-2017-5439<\/a>, CVE-2017-5440<\/a>, CVE-2017-5441<\/a>, CVE-2017-5442<\/a>,
CVE-2017-5443<\/a>, CVE-2017-5444<\/a>, CVE-2017-5445<\/a>, CVE-2017-5446<\/a>, CVE-2017-5447<\/a>,
CVE-2017-5448<\/a>, CVE-2017-5449<\/a>, CVE-2017-5451<\/a>, CVE-2017-5453<\/a>, CVE-2017-5454<\/a>,
CVE-2017-5455<\/a>, CVE-2017-5456<\/a>, CVE-2017-5458<\/a>, CVE-2017-5459<\/a>, CVE-2017-5460<\/a>,
CVE-2017-5461<\/a>, CVE-2017-5464<\/a>, CVE-2017-5465<\/a>, CVE-2017-5466<\/a>, CVE-2017-5467<\/a>,
CVE-2017-5468<\/a>, CVE-2017-5469<\/a>)<\/p>\n
attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw
could potentially be exploited to view sensitive information.
(CVE-2017-5462<\/a>)<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
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\n 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.17.04.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
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\n 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.10.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
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\n 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\nhttps:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
all the necessary changes.<\/p>\nReferences<\/h3>\n