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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2019.0983
USN-3919-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
26 March 2019
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Mozilla Firefox
Publisher: Ubuntu
Operating System: Ubuntu
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2019-9813 CVE-2019-9810
Reference: ASB-2019.0083
ESB-2019.0962.2
Original Bulletin:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3919-1/
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USN-3919-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
25 March 2019
firefox vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
o Ubuntu 18.10
o Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
malicious website.
Software Description
o 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
firefox - 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
firefox - 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
firefox - 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
firefox - 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://
wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades .
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.
References
o CVE-2019-9810
o CVE-2019-9813
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