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posted by martyb on Monday April 13 2020, @02:13PM   Printer-friendly

Firefox 75.0 has been released. From the Release Notes:

With today's release, a number of improvements will help you search smarter, faster. Type less and find more with Firefox's revamped address bar:

  • Focused, clean search experience that's optimized for smaller laptop screens
  • Top sites now appear when you select the address
  • Improved readability of search suggestions with a focus on new search terms
  • Suggestions include solutions to common Firefox issues
  • On Linux, the behavior when clicking on the Address Bar and the Search Bar now matches other desktop platforms: a single click selects all without primary selection, a double click selects a word, and a triple click selects all with primary selection

Security Fixes:

[...] #CVE-2020-6821: Uninitialized memory could be read when using the WebGL copyTexSubImage method
[...] When reading from areas partially or fully outside the source resource with WebGL's copyTexSubImage method, the specification requires the returned values be zero. Previously, this memory was uninitialized, leading to potentially sensitive data disclosure.

[...] CVE-2020-6822: Out of bounds write in GMPDecodeData when processing large images
[...] On 32-bit builds, an out of bounds write could have occurred when processing an image larger than 4 GB in GMPDecodeData. It is possible that with enough effort this could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

[...] CVE-2020-6823: Malicious Extension could obtain auth codes from OAuth login flows
[...] A malicious extension could have called browser.identity.launchWebAuthFlow, controlling the redirect_uri, and through the Promise returned, obtain the Auth code and gain access to the user's account at the service provider.

[...] CVE-2020-6824: Generated passwords may be identical on the same site between separate private browsing sessions
[...] Initially, a user opens a Private Browsing Window and generates a password for a site, then closes the Private Browsing Window but leaves Firefox open. Subsequently, if the user had opened a new Private Browsing Window, revisited the same site, and generated a new password - the generated passwords would have been identical, rather than independent.

[...] CVE-2020-6825: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 75 and Firefox ESR 68.7
[...] Mozilla developers and community members Tyson Smith and Christian Holler reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR 68.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.

[...] CVE-2020-6826: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 75
[...] Mozilla developers Tyson Smith, Bob Clary, and Alexandru Michis reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 74. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.


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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 14 2020, @10:31AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday April 14 2020, @10:31AM (#982491) Journal

    I might be wrong as I use much more waterfox than firefox but, on my mx linux installation, firefox seems to have silently removed some extensions, thos marked as unverified (or untrusted, whatever). It's nice to know some extensions are being vetted, but at least issue a fucking dialog that explains to you what has been done the first time you restart.

    This is systemd-like behavior: "Oh so you cannot rely anymore on a default we silently changed? well you should have read the changelog"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @11:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @11:36AM (#982512)

    Don't you just love it when software makes decisions for you, unmaking your choices, and does not tell you?

    I changed my DNS recently, rebooted, to find that systemd had reverted my change. My change. To set the DNS. On my machine.