USN-4165-2: Firefox regressions

firefox regressions

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

  • Ubuntu 19.10
  • Ubuntu 19.04
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

USN-4165-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Software Description

  • firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details

USN-4165-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced various minor regressions. This update fixes the problems.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

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, bypass security restrictions, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, bypass content security policy (CSP) protections, or execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10
firefox - 70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
Ubuntu 19.04
firefox - 70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
firefox - 70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
firefox - 70.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

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



from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2NIYSQn