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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-6649-1 Moderate: Firefox Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Security flaws in Firefox were resolved in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, improving defenses against potential threats.
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, obtain sensitive

information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-1547,

CVE-2024-1548, CVE-2024-1549, CVE-2024-1550, CVE-2024-1553, CVE-2024-1554,

CVE-2024-1555, CVE-2024-1557)

Alfred Peters discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when

storing and re-accessing data on a networking channel. An attacker could

potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2024-1546)

Johan Carlsson discovered that Firefox incorrectly handled Set-Cookie

response headers in multipart HTTP responses. An attacker could

potentially exploit this issue to inject arbitrary cookie values.

(CVE-2024-1551)

Gary Kwong discover...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service security issue update Ubuntu Firefox

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   firefox                         123.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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

References

CVE-2024-1546, CVE-2024-1547, CVE-2024-1548, CVE-2024-1549,

CVE-2024-1550, CVE-2024-1551, CVE-2024-1552, CVE-2024-1553,

CVE-2024-1554, CVE-2024-1555, CVE-2024-1556, CVE-2024-1557

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6649-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service security issue update Ubuntu Firefox

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/123.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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