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Ubuntu: USN-5475-1 (CVE-2022-31743): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5475-1 (CVE-2022-31743): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/13/2022
Created
06/16/2022
Added
06/14/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Firefox's HTML parser did not correctly interpret HTML comment tags, resulting in an incongruity with other browsers. This could have been used to escape HTML comments on pages that put user-controlled data in them. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 101.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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