Ubuntu 15.10: USN-2917-3 Moderate: Firefox Web Compatibility Issues

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April 19, 2016

USN-2917-1 introduced several regressions in Firefox.

Summary

USN-2917-1 introduced several regressions in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

USN-2917-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update caused several

web compatibility regressions.

This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Francis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS.

If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an

attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via

application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the

user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2016-1950)

Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel

Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup, Carsten Book, Gian-Carlo Pascutto,

Tyson Smith, Andrea Marchesini, and Jukka Jylänki discovered multiple

memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a

speciall...

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow firefox application crash ubuntu regression web compatibility

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  firefox                         45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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