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Ubuntu: USN-6862-1 (CVE-2024-5699): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-6862-1 (CVE-2024-5699): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/11/2024
Created
07/04/2024
Added
07/04/2024
Modified
10/23/2024

Description

In violation of spec, cookie prefixes such as `__Secure` were being ignored if they were not correctly capitalized - by spec they should be checked with a case-insensitive comparison. This could have resulted in the browser not correctly honoring the behaviors specified by the prefix. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

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