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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2372-1 High: Firefox Code Execution Threats

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Multiple security flaws in Firefox might allow for code execution or system crashes. Upgrade your Ubuntu to secure your browser against potential risks.
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:

Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard,

Carsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and

Jeff Walden discovered multiple memory safety issues 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 via application

crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking

Firefox. (CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during CSS manipulation. If a

user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker

could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via

application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the

user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1576)

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2372-1

CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575, CVE-2014-1576, CVE-2014-1577,

CVE-2014-1578, CVE-2014-1580, CVE-2014-1581, CVE-2014-1582,

CVE-2014-1583, CVE-2014-1584, CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586

October 14, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity code execution firefox ubuntu web threat

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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