Re: [PLUG] Firefox critical vulnerability

[Frank via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

The Firefox update was also pushed into in Mint sometime in the past few 
hours.

- Frank


On 10/10/24 12:52 PM, Paul Jungwirth via plug wrote:
> 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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