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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-23597: Mozilla Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-23597: Mozilla Firefox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/03/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
05/04/2023
Modified
06/12/2023

Description

A compromised web child process could disable web security opening restrictions, leading to a new child process being spawned within the <code>file://</code> context. Given a reliable exploit primitive, this new process could be exploited again leading to arbitrary file read. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 109.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-firefox
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-firefox-bin

References

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