USN-5370-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
7 April 2022
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Releases
Packages
- 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, execute script
unexpectedly, obtain sensitive information, conduct spoofing attacks,
or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-1097, CVE-2022-24713, CVE-2022-28281,
CVE-2022-28282, CVE-2022-28284, CVE-2022-28285, CVE-2022-28286,
CVE-2022-28288, CVE-2022-28289)
A security issue was discovered with the sourceMapURL feature of devtools.
An attacker could potentially exploit this to include local files that
should have been inaccessible. (CVE-2022-28283)
It was discovered that selecting text caused Firefox to crash in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2022-28287)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.
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