Ubuntu Security Notice 1639-1 - It was discovered that unity-firefox-extension incorrectly handled certain callbacks. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause unity-firefox-extension to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1639-1
November 22, 2012
unity-firefox-extension vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.10
Summary:
unity-firefox-extension could be made to crash or run programs as your
login if it opened a malicious website.
Software Description:
- unity-firefox-extension: Firefox extension: Unity Integration
Details:
It was discovered that unity-firefox-extension incorrectly handled certain
callbacks. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
unity-firefox-extension to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 12.10:
xul-ext-unity 2.4.1-0ubuntu1.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1639-1
CVE-2012-0960
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-firefox-extension/2.4.1-0ubuntu1.1