Ubuntu 19.10: USN-4165-2 Moderate: Firefox Software Regression

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November 5, 2019

USN-4165-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Summary

USN-4165-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

USN-4165-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced various

minor regressions. This update fixes the problems.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory 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 security

restrictions, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site

scripting (XSS) attacks, bypass content security policy (CSP) protections,

or execute arbitrary code.

Topics Covered

security advisory software update firefox ubuntu software regression

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10:
  firefox                         70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 19.04:
  firefox                         70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  firefox                         70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  firefox                         70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

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