14 DAY TRIAL // On June 26, Canonical published details about Firefox vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
For example, multiple memory safety issues have been discovered in Firefox.
Multiple use-after-free bugs have been discovered. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to execute arbitrary code, with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
For a more detailed description of the security problems, you can visit Canonical's security notification.
Users can simply fix the security flaws by upgrading their operating systems to the latest Firefox package, specific to each distribution.
A normal system update, executed with the Update Manager, will implement all the necessary changes. A complete system restart is not necessary, but you will have to restart the application.
Alternatively, you can download Mozilla Firefox 22.0 right now from Softpedia.