Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Debian: CVE-2021-29955: firefox-esr -- security update

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Description
A transient execution vulnerability, named Floating Point Value Injection (FPVI) allowed an attacker to leak arbitrary memory addresses and may have also enabled JIT type confusion attacks. (A related vulnerability, Speculative Code Store Bypass (SCSB), did not affect Firefox.). This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 78.9 and Firefox < 87.
Solution(s)
debian-upgrade-firefox-esr


Referenceshttps://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2021-29955
CVE - 2021-29955
DLA-2607-1
DSA-4874-1