USN-3919-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
25 March 2019
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Releases
Packages
- firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details
Two security issues were discovered in the JavaScript engine 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 18.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.