In its newest advisory, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is warning in opposition to a number of vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox browser. The vulnerability, the company says, could be exploited by attackers to influence victims to go to a specifically crafted web site. In its advisory, CERT-In has suggested customers to replace Mozilla Firefox to model 105 and Mozilla Firefox ESR to model 102.3.
CERT-In is the nationwide cyber company that works underneath the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It is the nodal company to take care of cyber safety threats.
What does the advisory say?
The cyber company says that a number of Vulnerabilities exist in Mozilla Firefox which could possibly be exploited by a distant attacker to bypass safety restriction, execute arbitrary code and disclose delicate info on the focused system.
“These vulnerabilities exist in Mozilla Firefox as a result of Memory security bugs inside the browser engine, Bypass of CharacteristicPolicy restrictions on transient pages, Data-race whereas parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads, Bypass of Secure Context restriction for cookies_Host and _Secure prefix, Stack-buffer overflow whereas initializing Graphics, Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass and Incoherent instruction cache whereas constructing WAS on ARM64,” it states.
Which software program is affected?
In its advisory, CERT-In says that Mozilla Firefox variations previous to 105 and Mozilla Firefox ESR variations previous to 102.3 are impacted by these vulnerabilities.
What ought to customers do?
Mozilla Firefox customers are suggested to replace to the most recent model of the browser, model 105. Mozilla Firefox ESR model must also be upgraded to 102.3 in case the gadget is working outdated variations.
Earlier this month, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team cautioned in opposition to a number of vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox browser that may permit hackers to compromise gadgets’ safety programs. The advisory stated that the bugs in Mozilla Firefox browser may permit a distant attacker to bypass safety restrictions, execute arbitrary code and trigger denial of service assault on the focused system.
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