Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-23 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, some of which may allow a remote user to execute arbitrary code. Versions less than 17.0.9 are affected.
4bef7b0a7ff87d60b621f002b69fe1f1340530418ea99fdd367ef66518e8baefThis Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability found on Firefox 17.0 (< 17.0.2), specifically an use after free of an Element object, when using the serializeToStream method with a specially crafted OutputStream defining its own write function. This Metasploit module has been tested successfully with Firefox 17.0.1 ESR, 17.0.1 and 17.0 on Windows XP SP3.
f58157e305e4290dd4e3a5a36814841073537da1ad441ef4e8c63cdafe49db1cMandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-002 - Google reported to Mozilla that TURKTRUST, a certificate authority in Mozillas root program, had mis-issued two intermediate certificates to customers. The issue was not specific to Firefox but there was evidence that one of the certificates was used for man-in-the-middle traffic management of domain names that the customer did not legitimately own or control. Various other issues were also addressed.
9ee750b2b8c7902fd7785c0edbfdc5773ae0ab089e0b3acc4daccaf1b8b4b1c4Ubuntu Security Notice 1681-2 - USN-1681-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Thunderbird. Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, Chiaki Ishikawa, Bill Gianopoulos, Benoit Jacob, Gary Kwong, Robert O'Callahan, Jesse Ruderman, and Julian Seward discovered multiple memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.
f5f21baaa2090e5debbc39691d9b154f1862f668e44f0e1c14d83a6f6939615aUbuntu Security Notice 1681-1 - Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, Chiaki Ishikawa, Bill Gianopoulos, Benoit Jacob, Gary Kwong, Robert O'Callahan, Jesse Ruderman, and Julian Seward discovered multiple memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Abhishek Arya discovered several user-after-free and buffer overflows in Firefox. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.
2b169ae0a8e50a945bfa9a6ad63afd568bcd5a5ccd5f1e2be9c786c6f49cbde9Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0144-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. A flaw was found in the way Chrome Object Wrappers were implemented. Malicious content could be used to cause Firefox to execute arbitrary code via plug-ins installed in Firefox.
75285fc97f2f6b9f19802b0e29b73892bc62549092979f361f6c616e2b8fd32aRed Hat Security Advisory 2013-0145-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. A flaw was found in the way Chrome Object Wrappers were implemented. Malicious content could be used to cause Thunderbird to execute arbitrary code via plug-ins installed in Thunderbird.
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