USN-3919-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 18.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- 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
Two security issues were discovered in the JavaScript engine in Firefox.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could exploit this by causing a denial of service, or executing
arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 18.10
- firefox – 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- firefox – 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- firefox – 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- firefox – 66.0.1+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.
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