USN-149-3: Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-149-3

28th July, 2005

mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 4.10

Details

USN-149-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary
Hedgehog) version of Firefox. The version shipped with Ubuntu 4.10
(Warty Warthog) is also vulnerable to these flaws, so it needs to be
upgraded as well. Please see

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-149-1

for the original advisory.

This update also fixes several older vulnerabilities; Some of them
could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges
if the user visited a malicious web site. (MFSA-2005-01 to
MFSA-2005-44; please see the following web site for details:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10:
mozilla-firefox
mozilla-firefox-locale-es
mozilla-firefox-locale-ja
mozilla-firefox-locale-nb
mozilla-firefox-locale-uk
mozilla-firefox-locale-de
mozilla-firefox-locale-ca
mozilla-firefox-locale-it
mozilla-firefox-locale-tr
mozilla-firefox-locale-fr
mozilla-firefox-locale-pl

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

None

References

CVE-2004-1156, CVE-2004-1381, CVE-2005-0141, CVE-2005-0142, CVE-2005-0143, CVE-2005-0144, CVE-2005-0145, CVE-2005-0146, CVE-2005-0147, CVE-2005-0150, CVE-2005-0230, CVE-2005-0231, CVE-2005-0232, CVE-2005-0233, CVE-2005-0255, CVE-2005-0399, CVE-2005-0401, CVE-2005-0402, CVE-2005-0578, CVE-2005-0584, CVE-2005-0585, CVE-2005-0586, CVE-2005-0587, CVE-2005-0588, CVE-2005-0589, CVE-2005-0590, CVE-2005-0591, CVE-2005-0592, CVE-2005-0593, CVE-2005-0752, CVE-2005-0989, CVE-2005-1153, CVE-2005-1154, CVE-2005-1155, CVE-2005-1156, CVE-2005-1157, CVE-2005-1158, CVE-2005-1159, CVE-2005-1160, CVE-2005-1531, CVE-2005-1532, CVE-2005-1937, CVE-2005-2260, CVE-2005-2261, CVE-2005-2262, CVE-2005-2263, CVE-2005-2264, CVE-2005-2265, CVE-2005-2266, CVE-2005-2267, CVE-2005-2268, CVE-2005-2269, CVE-2005-2270