USN-4165-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

USN-4165-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

firefox vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.10
• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.

Software Description

• firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, bypass security
restrictions, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site
scripting (XSS) attacks, bypass content security policy (CSP) protections,
or execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10

firefox – 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 19.04

firefox – 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

firefox – 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

firefox – 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

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.

References

• CVE-2018-6156
• CVE-2019-11757
• CVE-2019-11759
• CVE-2019-11760
• CVE-2019-11761
• CVE-2019-11762
• CVE-2019-11763
• CVE-2019-11764
• CVE-2019-11765
• CVE-2019-15903
• CVE-2019-17000
• CVE-2019-17001
• CVE-2019-17002

Source: USN-4165-1: Firefox vulnerabilities