USN-3761-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
6 September 2018
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
Multiple security issues were discovered 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, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-12375, CVE-2018-12376, CVE-2018-12377,
CVE-2018-12378)
It was discovered that if a user saved passwords before Firefox 58 and
then later set a primary password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords
would still be accessible. A local user could exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2018-12383)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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.
Related notices
- USN-3793-1: thunderbird-locale-en, thunderbird-locale-gl, thunderbird-locale-br, thunderbird-locale-da, thunderbird-locale-bn-bd, thunderbird-locale-kk, thunderbird-locale-es-es, thunderbird-locale-fi, thunderbird-locale-kab, thunderbird-locale-ko, thunderbird-locale-pa-in, thunderbird-locale-nn, thunderbird-locale-ro, thunderbird-locale-rm, thunderbird-locale-fy, thunderbird-locale-nb-no, thunderbird-locale-et, thunderbird-locale-mk, thunderbird-locale-hy, thunderbird-locale-cs, thunderbird-locale-en-gb, thunderbird-locale-nb, thunderbird-locale-ka, thunderbird-locale-is, thunderbird-locale-lt, thunderbird-locale-nn-no, thunderbird-locale-be, thunderbird-locale-uk, xul-ext-calendar-timezones, thunderbird-locale-zh-hant, thunderbird-locale-el, thunderbird-locale-sv-se, thunderbird-locale-sr, thunderbird-locale-ga-ie, thunderbird-locale-af, thunderbird-locale-gd, thunderbird-locale-de, thunderbird-locale-tr, thunderbird-locale-es-ar, thunderbird-locale-cy, thunderbird-locale-bg, thunderbird-locale-fr, xul-ext-gdata-provider, thunderbird-locale-sv, thunderbird-locale-zh-cn, thunderbird-locale-it, thunderbird-locale-vi, thunderbird-locale-fy-nl, thunderbird-locale-dsb, thunderbird-locale-pl, thunderbird-locale-si, thunderbird-locale-ja, thunderbird-locale-pt-pt, thunderbird-gnome-support, thunderbird-locale-hr, thunderbird-locale-ca, thunderbird-mozsymbols, thunderbird-locale-ga, xul-ext-lightning, thunderbird-locale-hsb, thunderbird-dev, thunderbird-locale-en-us, thunderbird-locale-hu, thunderbird-locale-pt, thunderbird-locale-bn, thunderbird-locale-ast, thunderbird-locale-es, thunderbird-locale-sq, thunderbird-locale-zh-hans, thunderbird-locale-ta-lk, thunderbird-locale-ms, thunderbird-locale-sk, thunderbird-locale-nl, thunderbird-locale-he, thunderbird-locale-ar, thunderbird-locale-id, thunderbird-locale-sl, thunderbird-locale-zh-tw, thunderbird-locale-pa, thunderbird, thunderbird-globalmenu, thunderbird-locale-pt-br, thunderbird-locale-eu, thunderbird-locale-ru, thunderbird-locale-ta, thunderbird-testsuite