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. (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 version:

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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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