1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4443-1

USN-4443-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Publication date

29 July 2020

Overview

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

Releases

Packages

  • 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, bypass iframe sandbox restrictions, confuse the user, or
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6463, CVE-2020-6514, CVE-2020-15652,
CVE-2020-15653, CVE-2020-15654, CVE-2020-15656, CVE-2020-15658,
CVE-2020-15659)

It was discovered that redirected HTTP requests which are observed or
modified through a web extension could bypass existing CORS checks. If a
user were tricked in to installing a specially crafted extension,...

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, bypass iframe sandbox restrictions, confuse the user, or
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6463, CVE-2020-6514, CVE-2020-15652,
CVE-2020-15653, CVE-2020-15654, CVE-2020-15656, CVE-2020-15658,
CVE-2020-15659)

It was discovered that redirected HTTP requests which are observed or
modified through a web extension could bypass existing CORS checks. If a
user were tricked in to installing a specially crafted extension, an
attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information
across origins. (CVE-2020-15655)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.04 focal firefox –  79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic firefox –  79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 xenial firefox –  79.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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