Ubuntu 15.04: USN-2743-3 Critical: Unity Firefox Integration Issues

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September 24, 2015

This update provides compatible packages for Firefox 41

Summary

This update provides compatible packages for Firefox 41

Software Description:

- unity-firefox-extension: Unity Integration for Firefox

- webaccounts-browser-extension: Ubuntu Online Accounts extension for chromium

- webapps-greasemonkey: Firefox extension: Website Integration

Details:

USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Future Firefox updates will

require all addons be signed and unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey

and webaccounts-browser-extension will not go through the signing process.

Because these addons currently break search engine installations (LP:

#1069793), this update permanently disables the addons by removing them from

the system.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David

Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup

discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were

tricked in to op...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue firefox ubuntu unity

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  xul-ext-unity                   3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.15.04.1
  xul-ext-webaccounts             0.5-0ubuntu4.15.04.1
  xul-ext-websites-integration    2.3.6+14.10.20140701-0ubuntu1.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  xul-ext-unity                   3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
  xul-ext-webaccounts             0.5-0ubuntu2.14.04.1
  xul-ext-websites-integration    2.3.6+13.10.20130920.1-0ubuntu1.2

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