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Ubuntu 20.04: USN-6321-1 Moderate: Firefox Security Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
This patch addresses significant vulnerabilities in Chromium for Linux Mint 20.04, improving protection against various threats.
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-2023-4573, CVE-2023-4574, CVE-2023-4575, CVE-2023-4578, CVE-2023-4581, CVE-2023-4583, CVE-2023-4584, CVE-2023-4585) Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when the "UpdateRegExpStatics" attempted to access "initialStringHeap". An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-4577) Malte Jürgens discovered that Firefox did not properly handle search queries if the search query itself was a well for...

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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 117.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6320-1

CVE-2023-4573, CVE-2023-4574, CVE-2023-4575, CVE-2023-4577,

CVE-2023-4578, CVE-2023-4579, CVE-2023-4580, CVE-2023-4581,

CVE-2023-4583, CVE-2023-4584, CVE-2023-4585

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6320-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/117.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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