[USN-2185-1] Firefox vulnerabilities

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Fri, 2 May 2014, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

>
> I can't seem to find any substantial amount of complaining (or really, any 
> traffic at all) about this on the forums, bug tracker, or mailing lists, 
> which is very confusing to me, but this firefox update appears to have broken 
> printing PDFs from the in-browser pdf.js viewer.  Most of our systems here 
> are running the 12.04 LTS (precise), but I think I could reproduce the 
> failure on 14.04 (trusty) as well.  Even a simple "print to file" is 
> sufficient to display the failure; the output is entirely blank. (We see a 
> lot of blank pages in the output trays of the printers in our computer labs.)
>
> I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1315020 for 
> tracking in Ubuntu, but the real action appears to be on the mozilla bug, 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003707 .

Upstream has released Firefox 29.0.1, which fixes mozilla but 1003707.

Any news on when we will see this version of firefox in Ubuntu?

Thanks,

Ben Kaduk