=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2768-1
October 16, 2015

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

- Ubuntu 15.04
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to expose sensitive information across origins

Software Description:
- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Abdulrahman Alqabandi and Ben Kelly discovered that the fetch() API did
not correctly implement the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
specification. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive
information from other origins. (CVE-2015-7184)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  firefox                         41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2768-1
  CVE-2015-7184

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1


Ubuntu 2768-1: Firefox vulnerability

October 16, 2015
Firefox could be made to expose sensitive information across origins

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 15.04: firefox 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: firefox 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: firefox 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2768-1

CVE-2015-7184

Severity
October 16, 2015

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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