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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1049-2

Posted Mar 7, 2011

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1049-2 - USN-1049-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. That update introduced a regression where some Java applets would fail to load. This update fixes the problem. 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. An attacker could exploit these to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary, 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 | 63a521ad446cb2ddd1af1035e156678cf3b9d54a0fd09d60d70e2e2288524400

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