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Ubuntu: USN-4140-1 (CVE-2019-11754): Firefox vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4140-1 (CVE-2019-11754): Firefox vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/25/2019
Created
09/27/2019
Added
09/26/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

When the pointer lock is enabled by a website though requestPointerLock(), no user notification is given. This could allow a malicious website to hijack the mouse pointer and confuse users. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69.0.1.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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