vulnerability message
Why am I getting this from Kaspersky? The most recent version is 108.0.2. Detect date ? 01/17/2023 Severity ? High Description
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Mozilla Firefox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions, execute arbitrary code, spoof user interface.
Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:
Security vulnerability in SystemPrincipal can be exploited to bypass security restrictions. Security vulnerability in WebWorker can be exploited to bypass security restrictions. Code execution vulnerability in GTK drag and drop can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code. Code execution vulnerability in process allocation can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code. Code execution vulnerability in Devtools can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code. Memory safety vulnerability can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. Security vulnerability in Notification permissions can be exploited to bypass security restrictions. Security vulnerability in format directive can be exploited to bypass security restrictions. Security UI vulnerability in cross-origin iframe can be exploited to spoof user interface.
Affected products
Mozilla Firefox earlier than 109.0
Solution
Update to the latest version
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All Replies (2)
To expand on that last reply, Firefox 109.0 was released last Tuesday. Possibly Kaspersky is alerting you to the public information Mozilla provided at that time:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-01/
Is your Firefox able to find the latest update using the Help > About method in this article: Update Firefox to the latest release?
uncleal53 said
Why am I getting this from Kaspersky? The most recent version is 108.0.2. Detect date Affected products Mozilla Firefox earlier than 109.0 Solution Update to the latest version Download Firefox
Yet in your own post it mentions the current version as 109.0 as the most recent as Fx 109.0 was released last week on January 17, 2023
Dropa said
One thing your Browser is out of date and another is that kaspersky isn't well trusted anymore because of it's country of Origin as well.
Though in this case Kaspersky gave proper information that anybody can easily find info on.