USN-3705-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
First published: Thu Jul 05 2018(Updated: )
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, read uninitialized memory, bypass same-origin restrictions, bypass CORS restrictions, bypass CSRF protections, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5156, CVE-2018-5186, CVE-2018-5187, CVE-2018-5188, CVE-2018-12358, CVE-2018-12359, CVE-2018-12360, CVE-2018-12361, CVE-2018-12362, CVE-2018-12363, CVE-2018-12364, CVE-2018-12365, CVE-2018-12366, CVE-2018-12367, CVE-2018-12370, CVE-2018-12371) A security issue was discovered with WebExtensions. If a user were tricked in to installing a specially crafted extension, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain full browser permissions. (CVE-2018-12369)
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/firefox | <61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/firefox | <61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =17.10 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/firefox | <61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =16.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/firefox | <61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 | 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =14.04 |
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Reference Links
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5156
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5186
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5187
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5188
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12358
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12359
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12360
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12361
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12362
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12363
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12364
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12365
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12366
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12367
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12369
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12370
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12371
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3714-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3749-1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3705-1 (Advisory)
Child vulnerabilities
(Contains the following vulnerabilities)
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/type
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/weakness
- agent/title
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/usn
- source/Ubuntu
- anchor-related/USN-3714-1
- anchor-related/USN-3749-1
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/trending
- package-manager/ubuntu
- vendor/ubuntu
- canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/18.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/17.10
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/16.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/14.04