CVE-2011-0079

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1121-1

Posted Apr 30, 2011

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1121-1 - Boris Zbarsky, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Michael Wu, and Ted Mielczarek discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit these to possibly run arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. It was discovered that there was a vulnerability in the memory handling of certain types of content. An attacker could exploit this to possibly run arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. It was discovered that Firefox incorrectly handled certain JavaScript requests. An attacker could exploit this to possibly run arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. Ian Beer discovered a vulnerability in the memory handling of a certain types of documents. An attacker could exploit this to possibly run arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. Chris Evans discovered a vulnerability in Firefox's XSLT generate-id() function. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to make other attacks more reliable.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, javascript, vulnerability

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-0079, CVE-2011-0081, CVE-2011-0069, CVE-2011-0070, CVE-2011-1202

SHA-256 | 0b43ad1f134723fd278888daf7e615fb85bcf6536d2409c43251b5e82195fe61

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