Firefox crashed on a secure web while giving financial info.

Bug #448417 reported by Rex Clark
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I was giving Credit Card info over a secure web and as soon as I gave the info and clicked on continue Firefox crashed and I was at my Desktop. I now don't know if the secure web site got my Credit Card info! This is not good!

Ubunto 9.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

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Rex Clark (rcanddc55) wrote :
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

security vulnerability: yes → no
visibility: private → public
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