Ubuntu Security Notice 2009-1 - Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Jordi Chancel discovered that HTML select elements could display arbitrary content. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing or clickjacking attacks Various other issues were also addressed.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2009-1
October 29, 2013
firefox vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 13.10
- Ubuntu 13.04
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Software Description:
- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details:
Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly
exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or
potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1739, CVE-2013-5590, CVE-2013-5591,
CVE-2013-5592)
Jordi Chancel discovered that HTML select elements could display arbitrary
content. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct
URL spoofing or clickjacking attacks (CVE-2013-5593)
Abhishek Arya discovered a crash when processing XSLT data in some
circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2013-5604)
Dan Gohman discovered a flaw in the Javascript engine. When combined
with other vulnerabilities, an attacked could possibly exploit this
to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2013-5595)
Ezra Pool discovered a crash on extremely large pages. An attacked
could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-5596)
Byoungyoung Lee discovered a use-after-free when updating the offline
cache. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-5597)
Cody Crews discovered a way to append an iframe in to an embedded PDF
object displayed with PDF.js. An attacked could potentially exploit this
to read local files, leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2013-5598)
Multiple use-after-free flaws were discovered in Firefox. An attacker
could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via
application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-5599, CVE-2013-5600, CVE-2013-5601)
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the Javascript engine when
using workers with direct proxies. An attacker could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2013-5602)
Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free when interacting with HTML
document templates. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause
a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-5603)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 13.10:
firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
Ubuntu 13.04:
firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
Ubuntu 12.10:
firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2009-1
CVE-2013-1739, CVE-2013-5590, CVE-2013-5591, CVE-2013-5592,
CVE-2013-5593, CVE-2013-5595, CVE-2013-5596, CVE-2013-5597,
CVE-2013-5598, CVE-2013-5599, CVE-2013-5600, CVE-2013-5601,
CVE-2013-5602, CVE-2013-5603, CVE-2013-5604, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1245414
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1