USN-2571-1: Firefox vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2571-1

24th April, 2015

firefox vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu (vivid)
• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 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

Robert Kaiser discovered a use-after-free during plugin initialization in
some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a
denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2706)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu (vivid):

firefox 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10:

firefox 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

firefox 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

firefox 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2015-2706

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/1aXHRvQ