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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-29541: Important: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-29541: Important: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/14/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/21/2023
Modified
06/02/2023

Description

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Firefox did not properly handle downloads of files ending in `.desktop`, which can be interpreted to run attacker-controlled commands. *This bug only affects Firefox for Linux on certain Distributions. Other operating systems are unaffected, and Mozilla is unable to enumerate all affected Linux Distributions.*

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-firefox
  • alma-upgrade-firefox-x11
  • alma-upgrade-thunderbird

References

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