USN-5954-2: Firefox regressions

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USN-5954-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced
several minor regressions. This update fixes the problem.

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Original advisory details:

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-2023-25750,
CVE-2023-25752, CVE-2023-28162, CVE-2023-28176, CVE-2023-28177)

Lukas Bernhard discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory
when invalidating JIT code while following an iterator. An attacker could
potentially exploits this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-25751)

Rob Wu discovered that Firefox did not properly manage the URLs when
following a redirect to a publicly accessible web extension file. An
attacker could potentially exploits this to obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2023-28160)

Luan Herrera discovered that Firefox did not properly manage cross-origin
iframe when dragging a URL. An attacker could potentially exploit this
issue to perform spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-28164)

Khiem Tran discovered that Firefox did not properly manage one-time
permissions granted to a document loaded using a file: URL. An attacker
could potentially exploit this issue to use granted one-time permissions
on the local files came from different sources. (CVE-2023-28161)

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DSA-5379 dino-im – security update

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Kim Alvefur discovered that insufficient message sender validation in
dino-im, a modern XMPP/Jabber client, may result in manipulation of
entries in the personal bookmark store without user interaction via a
specially crafted message. Additionally an attacker can take advantage
of this flaw to change how group chats are displayed or force a user to
join or leave an attacker-selected groupchat.

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