USN-2571-1: Firefox vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details

Robert Kaiser discovered a use-after-free during plugin initialization in
some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a
denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2706)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04

• firefox - 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10

• firefox - 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• firefox - 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• firefox - 37.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2015-2706