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Ubuntu: USN-3204-1 Important: Chromium Vulnerability Issues

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Certain vulnerabilities in Firefox might enable crashes or the execution of unapproved software when accessing harmful websites on Ubuntu systems.
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

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:

Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that whitelisted Mozilla domains could

make UITour API calls from background tabs. If one of these domains were

compromised and open in a background tab, an attacker could potentially

exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2015-0819)

Jan de Mooij discovered an issue that affects content using the Caja

Compiler. If web content loads specially crafted code, this could be used

to bypass sandboxing security measures provided by Caja. (CVE-2015-0820)

Armin Razmdjou discovered that opening hyperlinks with specific mouse

and key combinations could allow a Chrome privileged URL to be opened

without context restrictions being preserved. If a user were tricked in to

opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit

this to bypass s...

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical exploit DoS Ubuntu Firefox malicious website

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  firefox                         36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.10.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2505-1

CVE-2015-0819, CVE-2015-0820, CVE-2015-0821, CVE-2015-0822,

CVE-2015-0823, CVE-2015-0824, CVE-2015-0825, CVE-2015-0826,

CVE-2015-0827, CVE-2015-0829, CVE-2015-0830, CVE-2015-0831,

CVE-2015-0832, CVE-2015-0834, CVE-2015-0835, CVE-2015-0836

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February 25, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical exploit DoS Ubuntu Firefox malicious website

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.10.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.5

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