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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-6966-1 Moderate: Firefox Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Acquire essential patches for Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 to protect against various vulnerabilities. Update today!
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-2024-7518, CVE-2024-7521, CVE-2024-7524, CVE-2024-7526, CVE-2024-7527, CVE-2024-7528, CVE-2024-7529, CVE-2024-7530, CVE-2024-7531) It was discovered that Firefox did not properly manage certain memory operations when processing graphics shared memory. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to escape the sandbox. (CVE-2024-7519) Nan Wang discovered that Firefox did not properly handle type check in WebAssembly. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code....

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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 129.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6966-1

CVE-2024-7518, CVE-2024-7519, CVE-2024-7520, CVE-2024-7521,

CVE-2024-7522, CVE-2024-7524, CVE-2024-7525, CVE-2024-7526,

CVE-2024-7527, CVE-2024-7528, CVE-2024-7529, CVE-2024-7530,

CVE-2024-7531

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6966-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/129.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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