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Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04 LTS USN-5581-1: Firefox Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Various Chrome vulnerabilities might result in operating system failure or allow rogue applications to run through harmful web pages.
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 contents

of the addressbar, bypass security restrictions, or execute arbitrary

code.

Topics%20covered

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                         104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  firefox                         104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5581-1

CVE-2022-38472, CVE-2022-38473, CVE-2022-38475, CVE-2022-38477,

CVE-2022-38478

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August 24, 2022

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service firefox ubuntu malicious website

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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