vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3435-2: Firefox regression

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:C)
Published
Oct 4, 2017
Added
Oct 5, 2017
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description

USN-3435-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused the Flash plugin to crash in some circumstances. This update fixes the problem.


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Original advisory details:


Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, bypass phishing and malware protection, spoof the origin in modal dialogs, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7793,CVE-2017-7810,CVE-2017-7811,CVE-2017-7812, CVE-2017-7813,CVE-2017-7814,CVE-2017-7815,CVE-2017-7818,CVE-2017-7819, CVE-2017-7820,CVE-2017-7822,CVE-2017-7823,CVE-2017-7824) Martin Thomson discovered that NSS incorrectly generated handshake hashes. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7805) Multiple security issues were discovered in WebExtensions. If a user were tricked in to installing a specially crafted extension, an attacker could potentially exploit these to download and open non-executable files without interaction, or obtain elevated privileges. (CVE-2017-7816, CVE-2017-7821)

Solution

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