USN-3238-1: Firefox vulnerability
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3238-1
20th March, 2017
firefox vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox.
Software description
- firefox
– Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details
An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-5428)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 16.10:
-
firefox
52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
-
firefox
52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
firefox
52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
firefox
52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
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
Source: USN-3238-1: Firefox vulnerability
