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Ubuntu 21.10 USN-5321-2 Critical: Firefox Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5322-1 highlights urgent vulnerabilities in LibreOffice that may lead to data breaches and system disruptions.
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 21.10: firefox 98.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: firefox 98.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: firefox 98.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5321-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5321-1

CVE-2022-0843, CVE-2022-26381, CVE-2022-26382, CVE-2022-26383,

CVE-2022-26384, CVE-2022-26385, CVE-2022-26387

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March 17, 2022

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/98.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/98.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/98.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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