Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-4323-1 First vendor Publication 2020-04-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2020-04-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6821, CVE-2020-6822, CVE-2020-6824, CVE-2020-6825, CVE-2020-6826)

It was discovered that extensions could obtain auth codes from OAuth login flows in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to installing a specially crafted extension, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain access to the user's account. (CVE-2020-6823)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10:
firefox 75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
firefox 75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4323-1
CVE-2020-6821, CVE-2020-6822, CVE-2020-6823, CVE-2020-6824,
CVE-2020-6825, CVE-2020-6826

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/75.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4323-1

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Date Informations
2020-04-07 21:17:23
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