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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-23597): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-23597): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/23/2023
Created
01/25/2023
Added
01/23/2023
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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

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