The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6862-1 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-2024-5689, CVE-2024-5690,     CVE-2024-5691, CVE-2024-5693, CVE-2024-5697, CVE-2024-5698, CVE-2024-5699, CVE-2024-5700, CVE-2024-5701)

    Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory during garbage collection. An     attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service, or

    execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-5688)

    Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory in the JavaScript engine. An     attacker could potentially exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2024-5694)

    Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly handle certain allocations in the probabilistic     heap checker. An attacker could

    potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service.

    (CVE-2024-5695)

    Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Firefox did not properly handle certain text fragments in input tags. An     attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-5696)

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-6862-1)

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