USN-2009-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2009-1

29th October, 2013

firefox vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu (saucy)


• 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 version:

Ubuntu (saucy):

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make

all the necessary changes.

References

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, LP: 1245414

via Ubuntu Security Notices http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2009-1/