Firefox could be made to expose sensitive information across origins
Abdulrahman Alqabandi and Ben Kelly discovered that the fetch() API did not correctly implement the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) specification. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from other origins. (CVE-2015-7184)
16 October 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Firefox could be made to expose sensitive information across origins
Abdulrahman Alqabandi and Ben Kelly discovered that the fetch() API did not correctly implement the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) specification. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from other origins. (CVE-2015-7184)
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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