USN-6992-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

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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-2024-8382,
CVE-2024-8383, CVE-2024-8386, CVE-2024-8387, CVE-2024-8389)

Nils Bars discovered that Firefox contained a type confusion vulnerability
when performing certain property name lookups. An attacker could
potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-8381)

It was 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-2024-8384)

Seunghyun Lee discovered that Firefox contained a type confusion
vulnerability when handling certain ArrayTypes. An attacker could
potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-8385)

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Smashing Security podcast #383: The Godfather club, and AirTags to the rescue

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There’s a whole new dating scam that could mean you end up out of pocket (or beaten up) after a first date with a glamorous admirer, and a woman in Los Alamos uses an Air Tag to entrap a thief.

Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Maya Irvine of Sysdig.

All this, and a very bad Cockney accent, in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

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USN-6990-1: znc vulnerability

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Johannes Kuhn (DasBrain) discovered that znc incorrectly handled
user input under certain operations. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to execute arbitrary code on a user’s system if
the user was tricked into joining a malicious server.

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python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.el9

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FEDORA-EPEL-2024-92f7377188

Packages in this update:

python-django4.2-4.2.16-1.el9

Update description:

urlize and urlizetrunc were subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via very large inputs with a specific sequence of characters.

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