Ubuntu 12.10: USN-1620-1 Critical: Firefox XSS Attack Issues

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October 26, 2012

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Mariusz Mlynski and others discovered several flaws in Firefox that allowed

a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

(CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195)

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered a flaw in the way Firefox handled the

Location object. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted

page, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass security protections

and perform cross-origin reading of the Location object. (CVE-2012-4196)

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update XSS Ubuntu Firefox

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10:
  firefox                         16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  firefox                         16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  firefox                         16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  firefox                         16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.