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MFSA2022-04 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 97 (CVE-2022-22756)

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MFSA2022-04 Firefox: Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 97 (CVE-2022-22756)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/08/2022
Created
02/10/2022
Added
02/09/2022
Modified
01/04/2023

Description

If a user was convinced to drag and drop an image to their desktop or other folder, the resulting object could have been changed into an executable script which would have run arbitrary code after the user clicked on it. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 97, Thunderbird < 91.6, and Firefox ESR < 91.6.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-97_0

References

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