USN-4234-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 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
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive
information, bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) restrictions, conduct
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, or execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- firefox – 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
- Ubuntu 19.04
- firefox – 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- firefox – 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- firefox – 72.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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
- CVE-2019-17016
- CVE-2019-17017
- CVE-2019-17020
- CVE-2019-17022
- CVE-2019-17023
- CVE-2019-17024
- CVE-2019-17025
- CVE-2019-17026
Source: USN-4234-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
