USN-1091-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Description
It was discovered that several invalid HTTPS certificates were issued andrevoked. An attacker could use these to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.These were placed on the certificate blacklist to prevent their misuse. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox and anyapplications which use Xulrunner to make all the necessary changes. LP: 741528
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
- ubuntu-upgrade-xulrunner-1-9-2
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