what you don't know can hurt you
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1149-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1149-1
Posted Jun 23, 2011
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1149-1 - Multiple memory vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser rendering engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Martin Barbella discovered that under certain conditions, viewing a XUL document while JavaScript was disabled caused deleted memory to be accessed. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, javascript, vulnerability
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-0085, CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-2364, CVE-2011-2365, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2377
SHA-256 | f55fddce9d2bddcb039c6598e1e5566ab72817a1185ebc7d254888c12c8d5f6f

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1149-1

Change Mirror Download
==========================================================================
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1149-1
June 22, 2011

firefox, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerabilities
==========================================================================

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

- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Multiple Vulnerabilities were fixed in Firefox and Xulrunner

Software Description:
- firefox: safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
- xulrunner-1.9.2: XUL + XPCOM application runner

Details:

Multiple memory vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser rendering
engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2364, CVE-2011-2365,
CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376)

Martin Barbella discovered that under certain conditions, viewing a XUL
document while JavaScript was disabled caused deleted memory to be
accessed. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2011-2373)

Jordi Chancel discovered a vulnerability on multipart/x-mixed-replace
images due to memory corruption. An attacker could potentially use this to
crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2377)

Chris Rohlf and Yan Ivnitskiy discovered an integer overflow vulnerability
in JavaScript Arrays. An attacker could potentially use this to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2011-2371)

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities were discovered. An attacker could
potentially use these to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-0085, CVE-2011-2363)

David Chan discovered that cookies did not honor same-origin conventions.
This could potentially lead to cookie data being leaked to a third party.
(CVE-2011-2362)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10:
firefox 3.6.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
firefox 3.6.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox and any
applications which use Xulrunner to make all the necessary changes.

References:
CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-0085, CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2363,
CVE-2011-2364, CVE-2011-2365, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-2373,
CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2377

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/3.6.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9.2/1.9.2.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/3.6.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9.2/1.9.2.18+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1



Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

April 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Apr 1st
    10 Files
  • 2
    Apr 2nd
    26 Files
  • 3
    Apr 3rd
    40 Files
  • 4
    Apr 4th
    6 Files
  • 5
    Apr 5th
    26 Files
  • 6
    Apr 6th
    0 Files
  • 7
    Apr 7th
    0 Files
  • 8
    Apr 8th
    22 Files
  • 9
    Apr 9th
    14 Files
  • 10
    Apr 10th
    10 Files
  • 11
    Apr 11th
    13 Files
  • 12
    Apr 12th
    14 Files
  • 13
    Apr 13th
    0 Files
  • 14
    Apr 14th
    0 Files
  • 15
    Apr 15th
    30 Files
  • 16
    Apr 16th
    10 Files
  • 17
    Apr 17th
    22 Files
  • 18
    Apr 18th
    45 Files
  • 19
    Apr 19th
    8 Files
  • 20
    Apr 20th
    0 Files
  • 21
    Apr 21st
    0 Files
  • 22
    Apr 22nd
    11 Files
  • 23
    Apr 23rd
    68 Files
  • 24
    Apr 24th
    23 Files
  • 25
    Apr 25th
    16 Files
  • 26
    Apr 26th
    14 Files
  • 27
    Apr 27th
    0 Files
  • 28
    Apr 28th
    0 Files
  • 29
    Apr 29th
    20 Files
  • 30
    Apr 30th
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close