Firefox could be made to bypass SSL certificate verification.
Muneaki Nishimura discovered a flaw in Mozilla’s HTTP Alternative Services implementation which meant SSL certificate verification could be bypassed in some circumstances. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct a man in the middle attack. (CVE-2015-0799)
7 April 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Firefox could be made to bypass SSL certificate verification.
Muneaki Nishimura discovered a flaw in Mozilla’s HTTP Alternative Services implementation which meant SSL certificate verification could be bypassed in some circumstances. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct a man in the middle attack. (CVE-2015-0799)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.
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