USN-3238-1: Firefox vulnerability

Publication date

20 March 2017

Overview

An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox.


Packages

  • firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details

An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-5428)

An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-5428)

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.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.10 yakkety firefox –  52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
16.04 xenial firefox –  52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 trusty firefox –  52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 precise firefox –  52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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