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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: USN-1548-1 Critical Risk in Firefox Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2012
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Several vulnerabilities in Google Chrome were patched for Debian systems on October 15, 2015, impacting different versions.
Multiple security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Summary

Multiple security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Steve Fink, Bob Clary, Andrew

Sutherland, Jason Smith, John Schoenick, Vladimir Vukicevic and Daniel

Holbert discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were

tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly

exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or

potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.

(CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1971)

Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. If the

user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could

exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or

potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.

(CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976,

CVE-2012-...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  firefox                         15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  firefox                         15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  firefox                         15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1548-1

CVE-2012-1956, CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1971, CVE-2012-1972,

CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976,

CVE-2012-3956, CVE-2012-3957, CVE-2012-3958, CVE-2012-3959,

CVE-2012-3960, CVE-2012-3961, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3963,

CVE-2012-3964, CVE-2012-3965, CVE-2012-3966, CVE-2012-3967,

CVE-2012-3968, CVE-2012-3969, CVE-2012-3970, CVE-2012-3971,

CVE-2012-3972, CVE-2012-3973, CVE-2012-3975, CVE-2012-3976,

CVE-2012-3978, CVE-2012-3980, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1041620

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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