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Title    Tor Browser 13.0.13 Unscheduled Emergency Release
Date    Sunday March 24 2024, @12:58PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/03/24/1229220

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13013/

"This is an unscheduled emergency release with important security updates to Firefox for Desktop platforms. Android is unaffected."

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-16/#CVE-2024-29944

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2024-16
Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 115.9.1

Announced
March 22, 2024

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-16/#CVE-2024-29944

CVE-2024-29944: Privileged JavaScript Execution via Event Handlers

Impact critical

Description

An attacker was able to inject an event handler into a privileged object that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution in the parent process. Note: This vulnerability affects Desktop Firefox only, it does not affect mobile versions of Firefox.

Tails 6.0 is affected. Please update Tails 6.0 to the current version when they release it.


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