USN-3599-1: Firefox vulnerability

Publication date

16 March 2018

Overview

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.


Packages

  • firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details

An out-of-bounds write was discovered when processing Vorbis audio data.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5146)

An out-of-bounds write was discovered when processing Vorbis audio data.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5146)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
17.10 artful firefox –  59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
16.04 xenial firefox –  59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 trusty firefox –  59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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