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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Advisory USN-4443-1: Firefox Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4444-1 addresses severe vulnerabilities in Chromium, allowing for potential system instability or unauthorized access.
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service firefox ubuntu malicious website

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: firefox 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: firefox 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: firefox 79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4443-1

CVE-2020-15652, CVE-2020-15653, CVE-2020-15654, CVE-2020-15655,

CVE-2020-15656, CVE-2020-15658, CVE-2020-15659, CVE-2020-6463,

CVE-2020-6514

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July 29, 2020

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service firefox ubuntu malicious website

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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