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LIN1022-3940 : Security Advisory - firefox - CVE-2023-29542

Created: Apr 12, 2023    Updated: Jul 27, 2025
Resolved Date: Jul 27, 2025
Found In Version: 10.22.33.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 22
Component/s: Userspace

Description

A newline in a filename could have been used to bypass the file extension security mechanisms that replace malicious file extensions such as .lnk  with .download. This could have led to accidental execution of malicious code.

*This bug only affects Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows. Other versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 112, Firefox ESR < 102.10, and Thunderbird < 102.10.



https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29542