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Ubuntu: USN-5726-1 Moderate: Firefox Security Issues Exploit Risks

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical vulnerabilities in Firefox on Ubuntu pose serious security threats. Users must update Firefox urgently to safeguard their private data and system integrity
Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

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, cross-site tracing or execute

arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-45403, CVE-2022-45404, CVE-2022-45405,

CVE-2022-45406, CVE-2022-45407, CVE-2022-45408, CVE-2022-45409, CVE-2022-45410,

CVE-2022-45411, CVE-2022-45413, CVE-2022-40674, CVE-2022-45418, CVE-2022-45419,

CVE-2022-45420, CVE-2022-45421)

Armin Ebert discovered that Firefox did not properly manage while resolving

file symlink. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted weblink,

an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2022-45412)

Jefferson Scher and Jayateertha Guruprasad discovere...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service Ubuntu arbitrary code web browser Firefox

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  firefox                         107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  firefox                         107.0+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-5726-1

CVE-2022-40674, CVE-2022-45403, CVE-2022-45404, CVE-2022-45405,

CVE-2022-45406, CVE-2022-45407, CVE-2022-45408, CVE-2022-45409,

CVE-2022-45410, CVE-2022-45411, CVE-2022-45412, CVE-2022-45413,

CVE-2022-45415, CVE-2022-45416, CVE-2022-45417, CVE-2022-45418,

CVE-2022-45419, CVE-2022-45420, CVE-2022-45421

November 16, 2022

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service Ubuntu arbitrary code web browser Firefox

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/107.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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