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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-7798): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-7798): Firefox regression

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/08/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/16/2017
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code. In the worst case, this could allow arbitrary code execution when opening a malicious page with the style editor tool. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.3 and Firefox < 55.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-xul-ext-ubufox

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