firefox vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Software Description
A type confusion bug was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this by causing a denial of service, or executing arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.04
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu 18.10
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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.
References
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Software Description
- firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser
A type confusion bug was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this by causing a denial of service, or executing arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.04
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu 18.10
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
firefox - 67.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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.
References
Continue reading...