Ubuntu Security Notice 1665-1 - It was discovered that unity-firefox-extension bypassed the same origin policy checks in certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious page, an attacker could exploit this to steal confidential data or perform other security-sensitive operations.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1665-1
December 13, 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 expose sensitive information over
the network.
Software Description:
- unity-firefox-extension: Firefox extension: Unity Integration
Details:
It was discovered that unity-firefox-extension bypassed the same origin
policy checks in certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening
a malicious page, an attacker could exploit this to steal confidential data
or perform other security-sensitive operations.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 12.10:
xul-ext-unity 2.4.1-0ubuntu1.2
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1665-1
CVE-2012-0958
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-firefox-extension/2.4.1-0ubuntu1.2