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Ubuntu: 3155-1 Critical: Firefox Denial Of Service And Code Execution

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Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3155-1
December 13, 2016

firefox vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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:

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,
obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9080, CVE-2016-9893,
CVE-2016-9894, CVE-2016-9895, CVE-2016-9896, CVE-2016-9897, CVE-2016-9898,
CVE-2016-9899, CVE-2016-9900, CVE-2016-9901, CVE-2016-9902, CVE-2016-9903,
CVE-2016-9904)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
  firefox                         50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  firefox                         50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References:
  
  CVE-2016-9080, CVE-2016-9893, CVE-2016-9894, CVE-2016-9895,
  CVE-2016-9896, CVE-2016-9897, CVE-2016-9898, CVE-2016-9899,
  CVE-2016-9900, CVE-2016-9901, CVE-2016-9902, CVE-2016-9903,
  CVE-2016-9904

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1


Ubuntu: 3155-1 Critical: Firefox Denial Of Service And Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2016
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Various weaknesses in Chrome may result in application failures or unapproved code execution via harmful web pages.
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 16.10: firefox 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: firefox 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: firefox 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: firefox 50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-9080, CVE-2016-9893, CVE-2016-9894, CVE-2016-9895,

CVE-2016-9896, CVE-2016-9897, CVE-2016-9898, CVE-2016-9899,

CVE-2016-9900, CVE-2016-9901, CVE-2016-9902, CVE-2016-9903,

CVE-2016-9904

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December 13, 2016

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/50.1.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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