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USN-1665-1: unity-firefox-extension vulnerability

13 December 2012

unity-firefox-extension could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

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Releases

Packages

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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10

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

References