Ubuntu: 3896-1 Critical: Firefox Security Risks and Fixes

ubuntu

February 26, 2019

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if itopened 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:

Multiple security issues were discovered 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, bypass same

origin protections, or execute arbitrary code.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu firefox risk browser exploit

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10:
  firefox                         65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  firefox                         65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  firefox                         65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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