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Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-29955): firefox vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-29955): firefox vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/24/2021
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

Description

A transient execution vulnerability, named Floating Point Value Injection (FPVI) allowed an attacker to leak arbitrary memory addresses and may have also enabled JIT type confusion attacks. (A related vulnerability, Speculative Code Store Bypass (SCSB), did not affect Firefox.). This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.9 and Firefox < 87.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

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