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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-29543): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-29543): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/12/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/17/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

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-2023-29537, CVE-2023-29540, CVE-2023-29543, CVE-2023-29544, CVE-2023-29547, CVE-2023-29548, CVE-2023-29549, CVE-2023-29550, CVE-2023-29551)Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly manage fullscreen notifications using a combination of window.open, fullscreen requests, window.name assignments, and setInterval calls. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to perform spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-29533)Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when doing Garbage Collector compaction. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-29535)Zx from qriousec discovered that Firefox did not properly validate the address to free a pointer provided to the memory manager. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-29536)Alexis aka zoracon discovered that Firefox did not properly validate the URI received by the WebExtension during a load request. An attacker could potentially exploits this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-29538)Trung Pham discovered that Firefox did not properly validate the filename directive in the Content-Disposition header. An attacker could possibly exploit this to perform reflected file download attacks potentially tricking users to install malware. (CVE-2023-29539)Ameen Basha M K discovered that Firefox did not properly validate downloads of files ending in .desktop. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-29541)

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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