USN-3155-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3155-1

13th December, 2016

firefox vulnerabilities

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

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CVE-2016-9904