Critical Firefox Security Issues in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – USN-6890-1 Details and Fixes
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Firefox. Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser Details: 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-2024-6601, CVE-2024-6604, CVE-2024-6607, CVE-2024-6608, CVE-2024-6610, CVE-2024-6611, CVE-2024-6612, CVE-2024-6613, CVE-2024-6614, CVE-2024-6615) It was discovered that Firefox did not properly manage certain memory operations in the NSS. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-6602, CVE-2024-6609) Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory during thread creation. A...
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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS firefox 128.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6890-1
CVE-2024-6601, CVE-2024-6602, CVE-2024-6603, CVE-2024-6604,
CVE-2024-6606, CVE-2024-6607, CVE-2024-6608, CVE-2024-6609,
CVE-2024-6610, CVE-2024-6611, CVE-2024-6612, CVE-2024-6613,
CVE-2024-6614, CVE-2024-6615
Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/128.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1