The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6649-1 advisory.

    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-2024-1547, CVE-2024-1548,     CVE-2024-1549, CVE-2024-1550, CVE-2024-1553, CVE-2024-1554, CVE-2024-1555, CVE-2024-1557)

    Alfred Peters discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when storing and re-accessing data on     a networking channel. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2024-1546)

    Johan Carlsson discovered that Firefox incorrectly handled Set-Cookie response headers in multipart HTTP     responses. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to inject arbitrary cookie values.
    (CVE-2024-1551)

    Gary Kwong discovered that Firefox incorrectly generated codes on 32-bit ARM devices, which could lead to     unexpected numeric conversions or undefined behaviour. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause     a denial of service. (CVE-2024-1552)

    Ronald Crane discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when accessing the built-in profiler.
    An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-1556)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-6649-1)

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