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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-6267-1 High Severity: Firefox Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A series of security patches for Chrome address vulnerabilities that could result in information leakage and service disruptions.
Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 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, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-4047, CVE-2023-4048, CVE-2023-4049, CVE-2023-4051, CVE-2023-4053, CVE-2023-4055, CVE-2023-4056, CVE-2023-4057, CVE-2023-4058) Max Vlasov discovered that Firefox Offscreen Canvas did not properly track cross-origin tainting. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to access image data from another site in violation of same-origin policy. (CVE-2023-4045) Alexander Guryanov discovered that Firefox did not properly update the value of a global variable in WASM JIT analysis in some cir...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: firefox 116.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6267-1

CVE-2023-4045, CVE-2023-4046, CVE-2023-4047, CVE-2023-4048,

CVE-2023-4049, CVE-2023-4050, CVE-2023-4051, CVE-2023-4053,

CVE-2023-4055, CVE-2023-4056, CVE-2023-4057, CVE-2023-4058

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6267-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/116.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

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