USN-1360-1: Firefox vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details

Andrew McCreight and Olli Pettay discovered a use-after-free vulnerability
in the XBL bindings. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-0452)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.10

• firefox - 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04

• firefox - 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.10

• firefox - 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• firefox - 10.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2012-0452
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/929833

Related notices

• USN-1369-1: thunderbird