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USN-5881-1: Chromium vulnerabilities It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2023-0471, CVE-2023-0472, CVE-2023-0473, CVE-2023-0696, CVE-2023-0698, CVE-2023-0699, CVE-2023-0702, CVE-2023-0705) It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory. A remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a Chrome web app. (CVE-2023-0474) It was discovered that Chromium contained an inappropriate implementation in the Download component. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2023-0700) It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory. A remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI interactions could possibly [ more… ]

USN-5807-2: libXpm vulnerabilities USN-5807-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libXpm. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Martin Ettl discovered that libXpm incorrectly handled certain XPM files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted XPM file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libXpm to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-44617) Marco Ivaldi discovered that libXpm incorrectly handled certain XPM files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted XPM file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libXpm to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-46285) Alan Coopersmith discovered that libXpm incorrectly handled calling external helper binaries. If libXpm was being used by a setuid binary, a local attacker could possibly use this [ more… ]

USN-5880-1: Firefox vulnerabilities Christian Holler discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when using PKCS 12 Safe Bag attributes. An attacker could construct a PKCS 12 cert bundle in such a way that could allow for arbitrary memory writes. (CVE-2023-0767) Johan Carlsson discovered that Firefox did not properly manage child iframe’s unredacted URI when using Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header. An attacker could potentially exploits this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-25728) Vitor Torres discovered that Firefox did not properly manage permissions of extensions interaction via ExpandedPrincipals. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to download malicious files or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-25729) Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly validate background script invoking requestFullscreen. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to perform spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-25730) Ronald Crane discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when using EncodeInputStream in xpcom. [ more… ]