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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-7835): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-7835): Firefox regression

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/16/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Mixed content blocking of insecure (HTTP) sub-resources in a secure (HTTPS) document was not correctly applied for resources that redirect from HTTPS to HTTP, allowing content that should be blocked, such as scripts, to be loaded on a page. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

  • USN-3477-1
  • USN-3477-2
  • USN-3477-3
  • USN-3477-4
  • CVE-2017-7835

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