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Ubuntu: 3216-1 Critical: Firefox Could Crash From Malicious Websites

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2017
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The issue with Chrome on Debian systems could cause the browser to freeze or run harmful scripts when a dangerous page is visited, leading to serious security threats.
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:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were

tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could

potentially exploit these to bypass same origin restrictions, obtain

sensitive information, spoof the addressbar, spoof the print dialog,

cause a denial of service via application crash or hang, or execute

arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5399, CVE-2017-5400,

CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5403, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405,

CVE-2017-5406, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5412,

CVE-2017-5413, CVE-2017-5414, CVE-2017-5415, CVE-2017-5416, CVE-2017-5417,

CVE-2017-5418, CVE-2017-5419, CVE-2017-5420, CVE-2017-5421, CVE-2017-5422,

CVE-2017-5426, CVE-2017-5427)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical firefox application crash ubuntu malicious website

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
  firefox                         52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  firefox                         52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3216-1

CVE-2016-5412, CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5399, CVE-2017-5400,

CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5403, CVE-2017-5404,

CVE-2017-5405, CVE-2017-5406, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408,

CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5413, CVE-2017-5414, CVE-2017-5415,

CVE-2017-5416, CVE-2017-5417, CVE-2017-5418, CVE-2017-5419,

CVE-2017-5420, CVE-2017-5421, CVE-2017-5422, CVE-2017-5426,

CVE-2017-5427

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March 07, 2017

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical firefox application crash ubuntu malicious website

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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