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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-28177): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-28177): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/15/2023
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
04/10/2023

Description

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-25750, CVE-2023-25752, CVE-2023-28162, CVE-2023-28176, CVE-2023-28177)Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when invalidating JIT code while following an iterator. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-25751)Rob Wu discovered that Firefox did not properly manage the URLs when following a redirect to a publicly accessible web extension file. An attacker could potentially exploits this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-28160)Luan Herrera discovered that Firefox did not properly manage cross-origin iframe when dragging a URL. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to perform spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-28164)Khiem Tran discovered that Firefox did not properly manage one-time permissions granted to a document loaded using a file: URL. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to use granted one-time permissions on the local files came from different sources. (CVE-2023-28161)

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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