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Ubuntu 7065-1: Firefox Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A security notice for Firefox in Ubuntu detailing a critical memory management issue that may allow remote execution.
Firefox could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: Firefox could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website. Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser Details: Damien Schaeffer discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory in the content process when handling Animation timelines, leading to a use after free vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achieve remote code execution.

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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 131.0.2+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-7065-1

CVE-2024-9680

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7065-1

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/131.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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