Ubuntu: USN-4942-1 (CVE-2021-29952): Firefox vulnerability
5
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
05/10/2021
05/13/2021
05/11/2021
06/28/2021
Description
Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.
From USN-4942-1:
A race condition was discovered in Web Render Components. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
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