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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-6992-2 moderate: firefox regressions

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2024
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Significant revision to Firefox resolves regressions and vulnerabilities highlighted in USN-6992-2 impacting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
USN-6992-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Summary

USN-6992-1 caused some minor regressions in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

USN-6992-1 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-2024-8382,

CVE-2024-8383, CVE-2024-8386, CVE-2024-8387, CVE-2024-8389)

Nils Bars discovered that Firefox contained a type confusion vulnerability

when performing certain property name lookups. An attacker could

potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute

arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-8381)

It was discovered that Firefox did not ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution firefox regressions ubuntu

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
   firefox                         130.0.1+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-6992-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6992-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/2081668

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6992-2

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution firefox regressions ubuntu

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/130.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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