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USN-2185-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

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USN-2185-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/25/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/30/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors related to host resolution.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

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