=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1758-1
March 08, 2013

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

- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 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:

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.

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.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1758-1
  CVE-2013-0787, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1152052

Package Information:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1




Ubuntu 1758-1: Firefox vulnerability

March 8, 2013
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

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.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1758-1

CVE-2013-0787, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1152052

Severity
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1758-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/19.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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