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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7065-1
October 14, 2024
firefox vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Summary:
Firefox could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a
malicious website.
Software Description:
- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details:
Damien Schaeffer discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory in
the content process when handling Animation timelines, leading to a use
after free vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
achieve remote code execution.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  firefox                         131.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.
References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7065-1
  CVE-2024-9680
Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/131.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1