USN-3896-1: 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

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, bypass same origin protections, or execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10

firefox - 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

firefox - 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

firefox - 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

firefox - 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

• CVE-2018-18356
• CVE-2018-18511
• CVE-2019-5785

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2H32vig