USN-3599-1: Firefox vulnerability
USN-3599-1: Firefox vulnerability firefox vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 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 An out-of-bounds write was discovered when processing Vorbis audio data. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5146) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 17.10 firefox – 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS firefox – 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS firefox – 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need [ more… ]