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Ubuntu 14.10 Security Advisory: Moderate Firefox Threats and Updates

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2014
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Security flaws found in Firefox on Ubuntu may result in system crashes or unintended code execution. It is advisable to update promptly to lower 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:

Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, Max Jonas

Werner, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Eric Rahm, Byron Campen, Eric

Rescorla, and Xidorn Quan 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-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1588)

Cody Crews discovered a way to trigger chrome-level XBL bindings from web

content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a

specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to

bypass security restrictions. (CVE-2014-1589)

Joe Vennix discovered a crash when using XMLHttpReq...

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Ubuntu update instructions application crash Firefox software security

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  firefox                         34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.10.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

CVE-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1588, CVE-2014-1589, CVE-2014-1590,

CVE-2014-1591, CVE-2014-1592, CVE-2014-1593, CVE-2014-1594

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December 02, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Ubuntu update instructions application crash Firefox software security

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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