Hello Linux users,
Widespread denial of service and information disclosure vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed in Thunderbird and Firefox. These stealthy bugs could grant attackers unauthorized access to sensitive information or leave you without access to your critical Linux systems.
Read on to learn how to secure your systems against these dangerous flaws. You’ll also get updates on other issues impacting your open-source programs and applications that threaten your sensitive information and system security.
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ThunderbirdThe DiscoveryNumerous denial of service and information disclosure vulnerabilities have been identified in Thunderbird. These flaws include the potential exploitation of users accessing maliciously crafted websites and memory management issues in Thunderbird's handling of HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames. |
FirefoxThe DiscoverySeveral denial of service and information disclosure vulnerabilities have also been found in Firefox. These issues include improper memory management and the potential exploitation of users accessing maliciously crafted websites. |
ChromiumThe DiscoveryHave you updated to secure your systems against severe vulnerabilities recently found in Chromium, the open-source web browser project providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome? These bugs include a critical Type Confusion vulnerability in the ANGLE graphics layer engine, an out-of-bounds read in the V8 API, and a use-after-free condition in the Dawn implementation of the WebGPU standard. |
