Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3552-1 First vendor Publication 2018-01-31
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-01-31
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Johann Hofmann discovered that HTML fragments created for chrome-privileged documents were not properly sanitized. An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5124)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
firefox 58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3552-1
CVE-2018-5124

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/58.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3552-1

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Date Informations
2018-01-31 21:20:24
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