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USN-5411-1: Firefox vulnerabilities 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, spoof the browser UI, bypass permission prompts, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, or execute arbitrary code. Source: USN-5411-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

USN-5412-1: curl vulnerabilities Axel Chong discovered that curl incorrectly handled percent-encoded URL separators. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick curl into using the wrong URL and bypass certain checks or filters. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27780) Florian Kohnhuser discovered that curl incorrectly handled returning a TLS server’s certificate chain details. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-27781) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly reused a previous connection when certain options had been changed, contrary to expectations. (CVE-2022-27782) Source: USN-5412-1: curl vulnerabilities

USN-5410-1: NSS vulnerability Lenny Wang discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause servers compiled with NSS to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. Source: USN-5410-1: NSS vulnerability

USN-5259-3: Cron regression USN-5259-1 and USN-5259-2 fixed vulnerabilities in Cron. Unfortunately that update was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the postinst maintainer script in Cron unsafely handled file permissions during package install or update operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a privilege escalation attack. (CVE-2017-9525) Florian Weimer discovered that Cron incorrectly handled certain memory operations during crontab file creation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9704) It was discovered that Cron incorrectly handled user input during crontab file creation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9705) It was discovered that Cron contained a use-after-free vulnerability in its force_rescan_user function. An attacker could possibly use [ more… ]