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 to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-3599-1: Firefox vulnerability
