=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2360-1
September 24, 2014

firefox vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to
be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Software Description:
- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled
parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA
certificates.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2360-1
  CVE-2014-1568

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1


Ubuntu 2360-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

September 24, 2014
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: firefox 32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: firefox 32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2360-1

CVE-2014-1568

Severity
September 24, 2014

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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