USN-3140-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3140-1

30th November, 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

It was discovered that data: URLs can inherit the wrong origin after a
HTTP redirect in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially
exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions. ()

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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