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USN-3599-1: Firefox vulnerability

USN-3599-1: Firefox vulnerability

firefox vulnerability

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

Summary

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

Software Description

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
firefox59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
firefox59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
firefox59.0.1+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

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