CVE-2013-0772

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1729-2

Posted Mar 1, 2013

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1729-2 - USN-1729-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update introduced a regression which sometimes resulted in freezes and crashes when using multiple tabs with images displayed. This update fixes the problem. Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew, Wayne Mery, Alon Zakai, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Luke Wagner, Terrence Cole, Timothy Nikkel, Bill McCloskey, and Nicolas Pierron 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, vulnerability

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2013-0772, CVE-2013-0765, CVE-2013-0773, CVE-2013-0774, CVE-2013-0775, CVE-2013-0776, CVE-2013-0781, CVE-2013-0782

SHA-256 | 6c6ed11b905d9e5ea9eb087e8ebfaad6c611dc8cf1da9aad0b8b3490cc0c5f65

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1729-1

Posted Feb 20, 2013

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1729-1 - Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew, Wayne Mery, Alon Zakai, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Luke Wagner, Terrence Cole, Timothy Nikkel, Bill McCloskey, and Nicolas Pierron 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. Atte Kettunen discovered that Firefox could perform an out-of-bounds read while rendering GIF format images. An attacker could exploit this to crash Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2013-0772, CVE-2013-0765, CVE-2013-0773, CVE-2013-0774, CVE-2013-0775, CVE-2013-0776, CVE-2013-0781, CVE-2013-0782, CVE-2013-0765, CVE-2013-0772, CVE-2013-0773, CVE-2013-0774, CVE-2013-0775, CVE-2013-0776, CVE-2013-0777, CVE-2013-0778, CVE-2013-0779, CVE-2013-0780, CVE-2013-0781, CVE-2013-0782, CVE-2013-0783, CVE-2013-0784

SHA-256 | efab7f07cece6f3050c4c7798596f5cb5d725280a3bdc0d5e2a56be32baddab9

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