USN-2723-1

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    USN-2723-1

    Published: 27 Aug 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: firefox vulnerabilities

    Details: A use-after-free was discovered when resizing a canvas element during restyling in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-4497) Bas Venis discovered that the addon install permission prompt could be bypassed using data: URLs in some circumstances. It was also discovered that the installation notification could be made to appear over another site. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to install a malicious addon. (CVE-2015-4498)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2723-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4497, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4498

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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