USN-3552-1: Firefox vulnerability
USN-3552-1: Firefox vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3552-1 31st January, 2018 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 run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website. Software description firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser Details Johann Hofmann discovered that HTML fragments created forchrome-privileged documents were not properly sanitized. An attackercould exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5124) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 17.10: firefox 58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: firefox 58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: firefox 58.0.1+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 to restart Firefox to makeall the necessary changes. References CVE-2018-5124 Source: USN-3552-1: Firefox vulnerability