firefox vulnerabilities

26 October 2012

firefox vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Software Description

• firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details

Mariusz Mlynski and others discovered several flaws in Firefox that allowed a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195)

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered a flaw in the way Firefox handled the Location object. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass security protections and perform cross-origin reading of the Location object. (CVE-2012-4196)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10

firefox - 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

firefox - 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10

firefox - 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04

firefox - 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

firefox - 16.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

• CVE-2012-4194
• CVE-2012-4195
• CVE-2012-4196