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Ubuntu 13.04: USN-1924-2 Critical: Ubufox & Unity Firefox Update

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2013
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Urgent patches have been released for ubufox and unity-firefox-extension in Ubuntu, targeting several vulnerabilities found in Firefox.
This update provides compatible packages for Firefox 23.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update XSS Ubuntu Firefox memory safety

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 13.04: xul-ext-ubufox 2.7-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 Ubuntu 12.10: xul-ext-ubufox 2.7-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 xul-ext-unity 2.4.7-0ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: xul-ext-ubufox 2.7-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1924-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1924-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1208039

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August 06, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update XSS Ubuntu Firefox memory safety

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/2.7-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/2.7-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-firefox-extension/2.4.7-0ubuntu0.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/2.7-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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