CVE-2014-1591

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2424-1

Posted Dec 2, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2424-1 - Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, Max Jonas Werner, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Eric Rahm, Byron Campen, Eric Rescorla, and Xidorn Quan discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, 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. Cody Crews discovered a way to trigger chrome-level XBL bindings from web content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security restrictions. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, web, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1588, CVE-2014-1589, CVE-2014-1590, CVE-2014-1591, CVE-2014-1592, CVE-2014-1593, CVE-2014-1594

SHA-256 | bd64f6deeda37a74febafdf00c9dfcb38d1e411fb9b1ca87dc69dce474b713c5

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