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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1049-1

Posted Mar 3, 2011

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1049-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been addressed in the firefox and xulrunner packages. Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Gary Kwong, Jeff Walden, Henry Sivonen, Martijn Wargers, David Baron and Marcia Knous discovered several memory issues in the browser engine. Zach Hoffman discovered that a recursive call to eval() wrapped in a try/catch statement places the browser into a inconsistent state. It was discovered that memory was used after being freed in a method used by JSON.stringify. Christian Holler discovered multiple buffer overflows in the JavaScript engine. Daniel Kozlowski discovered that a JavaScript Worker kept a reference to memory after it was freed. Various other issues have also been addressed.

tags | advisory, overflow, javascript, vulnerability

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2010-1585, CVE-2011-0051, CVE-2011-0053, CVE-2011-0054, CVE-2011-0055, CVE-2011-0056, CVE-2011-0057, CVE-2011-0058, CVE-2011-0059, CVE-2011-0061, CVE-2011-0062, CVE-2011-0056

SHA-256 | 11df6da5cbb40528cbeafb93b5bdd7aa9e44b8fac9ccabdb424704d5222d3bd2

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