USN-1360-1: Firefox vulnerability
13 February 2012
A security vulnerability has been fixed in Firefox.
Releases
Packages
- firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details
Andrew McCreight and Olli Pettay discovered a use-after-free vulnerability
in the XBL bindings. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-0452)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.