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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-5536-1 Moderate: Firefox DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Several security flaws in Firefox might enable crashes or unauthorized program execution; update immediately to reduce threats.
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

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, spoof the mouse

pointer position, bypass Subresource Integrity protections, obtain

sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update Ubuntu vulnerability attack firefox

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  firefox                         103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  firefox                         103.0+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-5536-1

CVE-2022-2505, CVE-2022-36315, CVE-2022-36316, CVE-2022-36318,

CVE-2022-36319, CVE-2022-36320

July 28, 2022

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update Ubuntu vulnerability attack firefox

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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