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Ubuntu 21.10: USN-5475-1 Critical Firefox Security Issue Exploits

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Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5475-1
June 13, 2022

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

- Ubuntu 21.10
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.

Software Description:
- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive
information, spoof the browser UI, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks, bypass content security policy (CSP) restrictions, or execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 21.10:
  firefox                         101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  firefox                         101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  firefox                         101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5475-1
  CVE-2022-1919, CVE-2022-31736, CVE-2022-31737, CVE-2022-31738,
  CVE-2022-31740, CVE-2022-31741, CVE-2022-31742, CVE-2022-31743,
  CVE-2022-31744, CVE-2022-31745, CVE-2022-31747, CVE-2022-31748

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 21.10: USN-5475-1 Critical Firefox Security Issue Exploits

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5475-1 tackles vulnerabilities in Firefox; severe problems could result in crashes and execution of unwanted code.
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 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: firefox 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: firefox 101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5475-1

CVE-2022-1919, CVE-2022-31736, CVE-2022-31737, CVE-2022-31738,

CVE-2022-31740, CVE-2022-31741, CVE-2022-31742, CVE-2022-31743,

CVE-2022-31744, CVE-2022-31745, CVE-2022-31747, CVE-2022-31748

Severity
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Critical

June 13, 2022

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/101.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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