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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-11720): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-11720): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/09/2019
Created
07/15/2019
Added
07/13/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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