Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2602-1 Critical: Buffer Overflow In Firefox

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May 13, 2015

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:

Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong,

Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic

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-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG

content with certain CSS properties in some circumstances. 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 t...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow Ubuntu Firefox memory safety

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  firefox                         38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10:
  firefox                         38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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