--- title: 'USN-2372-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices' description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2372-1 --- 1. [Ubuntu Security Notices](https://ubuntu.com/security/notices) 2. USN-2372-1 --- # USN-2372-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Publication date 14 October 2014 Overview Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website. Releases [14.04 LTS](https://ubuntu.com/security/notices?release=trusty) [12.04](https://ubuntu.com/security/notices?release=precise) --- Open side navigation ## Packages * [firefox](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves?package=firefox) - Mozilla Open Source web browser ## Details Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Carsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and Jeff Walden discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. ([CVE-2014-1574](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1574), [CVE-2014-1575](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1575)) Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during CSS manipulation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. ([CVE-2014-1576](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1576)) Holger Fuhrmannek discovered... --- Show more ## 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.](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: | Ubuntu Release | Package Version | | --- | --- | | 14.04 LTS trusty | [firefox](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox) –  [33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) | | | | 12.04 precise | [firefox](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox) –  [33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) | | | --- ### Reduce your security exposure Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines. [Get Ubuntu Pro](https://ubuntu.com/pro) ## References * [CVE-2014-1586](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1586) * [CVE-2014-1585](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1585) * [CVE-2014-1584](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1584) * [CVE-2014-1583](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1583) * [CVE-2014-1582](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1582) * [CVE-2014-1581](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1581) * [CVE-2014-1580](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1580) * [CVE-2014-1578](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1578) * [CVE-2014-1577](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1577) * [CVE-2014-1576](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1576) --- Show 2 more references ## Related notices * [USN-2373-1](https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2373-1)