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Ubuntu 19.04: USN-4216-1 Critical: Firefox Code Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Upgrade Firefox on Ubuntu to address vulnerabilities related to system instability and potential remote code execution threats from harmful web pages.
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 denial of service code execution firefox ubuntu

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10: firefox 71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 Ubuntu 19.04: firefox 71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.19.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: firefox 71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4216-1

CVE-2019-11745, CVE-2019-11756, CVE-2019-17005, CVE-2019-17008,

CVE-2019-17010, CVE-2019-17011, CVE-2019-17012, CVE-2019-17013,

CVE-2019-17014

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December 09, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution firefox ubuntu

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.19.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/71.0+build5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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