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Ubuntu 4054-1 Moderate: Firefox Malicious Website Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4054-1 warns users of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, urging immediate updates to protect against potential exploits and code execution risks
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS Ubuntu Firefox sandbox escape malicious website

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04:   firefox                         68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.19.04.1 Ubuntu 18.10:   firefox                         68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:   firefox                         68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:   firefox                         68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4054-1

  CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11710, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712,

  CVE-2019-11713, CVE-2019-11714, CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11716,

  CVE-2019-11717, CVE-2019-11718, CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11720,

  CVE-2019-11721, CVE-2019-11723, CVE-2019-11724, CVE-2019-11725,

  CVE-2019-11727, CVE-2019-11728, CVE-2019-11729, CVE-2019-11730,

  CVE-2019-9811

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July 12, 2019

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS Ubuntu Firefox sandbox escape malicious website

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.19.04.1   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.10.1   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

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