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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-5385): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-5385): Firefox regression

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/28/2017
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

Data sent with in multipart channels, such as the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type, will ignore the referrer-policy response header, leading to potential information disclosure for sites using this header. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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