Ubuntu 12.10 USN-1758-1 Moderate Firefox Memory Safety Risk

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March 8, 2013

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

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:

It was discovered that Firefox contained a memory safety issue. If a user

were tricked into opening a specially crafted page with the HTML editor, a

remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user invoking the program.

Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution Ubuntu moderate threat Firefox memory safety

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  firefox                         19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  firefox                         19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  firefox                         19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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