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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2360-1 Moderate: Firefox Certificate Forgery Risk

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2014
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Compromised encryption certificates pose risks of data leaks in Firefox within Ubuntu environments. Immediate patching needed!
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Summary

Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to

be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled

parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA

certificates.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate firefox information exposure ubuntu browser update certificate forgery

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2360-1

CVE-2014-1568

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September 24, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate firefox information exposure ubuntu browser update certificate forgery

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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