Re: [PLUG] Firefox critical vulnerability

[Paul Jungwirth via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Thanks for pointing this out!

If you disable snaps and use the Mozilla ppa, you get it early. :-)

I saw that "Firefox needs to restart" message first thing this morning, and sure enough I'm on 
131.0.2, despite using Xubuntu 22.04.

Paul

On 10/10/24 08:55, K.S. Bhaskar via plug wrote:
> Yesterday, Mozilla released a fix to a critical Firefox vulnerability with exploits in the wild 
> (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/ 
> <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/>). While critical vulnerabilities 
> are rare in Firefox, this one would seem to warrant fixes once Linux distributions release them 
> (Arch has; Ubuntu & Debian have not yet).
>
> Regards
> – Bhaskar
>
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