USN-3435-2: Firefox regression<\/p>\n
4th October, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its USN-3435-1 caused a regression in Firefox.\n<\/p>\n USN-3435-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused the Flash We apologize for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n Original advisory details:<\/p>\n Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were Martin Thomson discovered that NSS incorrectly generated handshake hashes. Multiple security issues were discovered in WebExtensions. If a user were 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 LP: 1720908<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3435-2: Firefox regression<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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… ]<\/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-19469","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\/19469","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=19469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19470,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19469\/revisions\/19470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}firefox regression<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
Software description<\/h3>\n
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\n – Mozilla Open Source web browser<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
plugin to crash in some circumstances. This update fixes the problem.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>, CVE-2017-7810<\/a>, CVE-2017-7811<\/a>, CVE-2017-7812<\/a>,
CVE-2017-7813<\/a>, CVE-2017-7814<\/a>, CVE-2017-7815<\/a>, CVE-2017-7818<\/a>, CVE-2017-7819<\/a>,
CVE-2017-7820<\/a>, CVE-2017-7822<\/a>, CVE-2017-7823<\/a>, CVE-2017-7824<\/a>)<\/p>\n
A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7805<\/a>)<\/p>\n
tricked in to installing a specially crafted extension, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to download and open non-executable files
without interaction, or obtain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-7816<\/a>,
CVE-2017-7821<\/a>)<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
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\n 56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.17.04.2<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
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\n 56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.2<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
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\n 56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.2<\/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