Packet Storm

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1222-2: Posted Oct 5, 2011; Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com; Ubuntu Security Notice 1222-2 - USN-1222-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides updated packages for use with Firefox 7. Firefox could be made to crash or possibly run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website. Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Andrew McCreight, Andreas Gal, Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Jason Orendorff, Jesse Ruderman, and Marcia Knous discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser rendering engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Boris Zbarsky discovered that a frame named "location" could shadow the window.location object unless a script in a page grabbed a reference to the true object before the frame was created. This is in violation of the Same Origin Policy. A malicious website could possibly use this to access another website or the local file system. Various other issues were also addressed.; tags | advisory, arbitrary, local, vulnerability; systems | linux, ubuntu; advisories | CVE-2011-2372, CVE-2011-2995, CVE-2011-2997, CVE-2011-2999, CVE-2011-3000, CVE-2011-3001, CVE-2011-3002, CVE-2011-3003, CVE-2011-3004, CVE-2011-3005, CVE-2011-3232; SHA-256 | 75a889f925846faaadd677cbb2c20dcd1e773bbcb1f56b408c02f338adcac064; Download | Favorite | View

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