USN-3761-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

firefox vulnerabilities

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

• 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

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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-12375, CVE-2018-12376, CVE-2018-12377, CVE-2018-12378)

It was discovered that if a user saved passwords before Firefox 58 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords would still be accessible. A local user could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-12383)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

firefox - 62.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

firefox - 62.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

firefox - 62.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

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-2018-12375
• CVE-2018-12376
• CVE-2018-12377
• CVE-2018-12378
• CVE-2018-12383

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2oKYwfV