Ubuntu 13.10 USN-2031-1 Moderate: Firefox Denial Of Service Update

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November 20, 2013

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked

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

these to cause a denial of service via application crash, potentially

execute arbitrary code, or lead to information disclosure. (CVE-2013-1741,

CVE-2013-2566, CVE-2013-5605, CVE-2013-5607)

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service firefox application crash ubuntu

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
  firefox                         25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 13.04:
  firefox                         25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  firefox                         25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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