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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-8383): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-8383): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/03/2024
Created
09/07/2024
Added
09/06/2024
Modified
09/23/2024

Description

Firefox normally asks for confirmation before asking the operating system to find an application to handle a scheme that the browser does not support. It did not ask before doing so for the Usenet-related schemes news: and snews:. Since most operating systems don't have a trusted newsreader installed by default, an unscrupulous program that the user downloaded could register itself as a handler. The website that served the application download could then launch that application at will. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 130, Firefox ESR < 128.2, and Firefox ESR < 115.15.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

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