USN-1620-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1620-1
26th October, 2012
firefox vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.
Software description
- firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details
Mariusz Mlynski and others discovered several flaws in Firefox that allowed
a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
(CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195)
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered a flaw in the way Firefox handled the
Location object. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted
page, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass security protections
and perform cross-origin reading of the Location object. (CVE-2012-4196)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 12.10:
- firefox 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
- firefox 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
- Ubuntu 11.10:
- firefox 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
- Ubuntu 11.04:
- firefox 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
- firefox 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.