{"id":59912,"date":"2024-10-23T01:10:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/182301\/USN-7078-1.txt"},"modified":"2024-10-23T01:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:10:55","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-7078-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-7078-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7078-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================<br \/>Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7078-1<br \/>October 22, 2024<\/p>\n<p>firefox vulnerability<br \/>==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login<\/p>\n<p>Software Description:<br \/>&#8211; firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>Atte Kettunen discovered that Firefox did not properly validate before<br \/>inserting ranges into the selection node cache. An attacker could possibly<br \/>use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.<\/p>\n<p>Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>package versions:<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 20.04 LTS<br \/>firefox 131.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1<\/p>\n<p>After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the<br \/>necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-7078-1<br \/>CVE-2024-9936<\/p>\n<p>Package Information:<br \/>https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\/131.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7078-1October 22, 2024 firefox vulnerability========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login Software Description:&#8211; firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser Details: Atte Kettunen discovered that Firefox did not properly validate beforeinserting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}