Happy Friday fellow Linux geeks! This week, important updates have been issued for Poppler, Expat and Firefox. Read on to learn about these vulnerabilities and how to secure your system against them.
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PopplerThe DiscoverySeveral security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Poppler PDF rendering library (CVE-2018-18897, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-20650 and CVE-2019-9903). |
ExpatThe DiscoveryA heap use-after-free vulnerability in function doContent has been found in Expat (CVE-2022-40674). The ImpactExploitation of this bug could result in denial of service (DoS) or arbitrary code execution. The FixAn Expat security update mitigates this flaw. We recommend that you update as soon as possible to secure your systems against attacks and compromise. Your Related Advisories:Register to Customize Your Advisories |
FirefoxThe DiscoveryThirty-four important security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. The ImpactThese bugs could result in spoofing attacks, memory corruption, and potential code execution, among other threats. |
