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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-6010-2 Moderate Firefox Regressions Fix

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
USN-6020-1 addresses performance glitches in Chrome impacting Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 LTS following prior security patches.
USN-6010-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Summary

USN-6010-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

USN-6010-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced

several minor regressions. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory 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 across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-29537,

CVE-2023-29540, CVE-2023-29543, CVE-2023-29544, CVE-2023-29547,

CVE-2023-29548, CVE-2023-29549, CVE-2023-29550, CVE-2023-29551)

Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly manage fullscreen

notifications using a combination of window.open, fullscreen requests,

window.name assignments, and setInterval calls. An attacker could

potentially explo...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service Ubuntu Firefox regression

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  firefox                         112.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  firefox                         112.0.1+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-6010-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/2016835

April 18, 2023

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service Ubuntu Firefox regression

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/112.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/112.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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