USN-3609-1: 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
A use-after-free was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 17.10
- firefox – 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- firefox – 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- firefox – 59.0.2+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-3609-1: Firefox vulnerability
