USN-7086-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

31 October 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox.

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Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive
information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-10458
CVE-2024-10459, CVE-2024-10460, CVE-2024-10461, CVE-2024-10462,
CVE-2024-10463, CVE-2024-10464, CVE-2024-10465, CVE-2024-10466,
CVE-2024-10467, CVE-2024-10468)

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

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

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