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Today's Topics:

1. [USN-645-2] Firefox vulnerabilities (Jamie Strandboge)

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:30:20 -0500
From: Jamie Strandboge <jamie@canonical.com>
Subject: [USN-645-2] Firefox vulnerabilities
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-645-2 September 24, 2008
firefox vulnerabilities
CVE-2008-0016, CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-3836, CVE-2008-3837,
CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061,
CVE-2008-4062, CVE-2008-4063, CVE-2008-4064, CVE-2008-4065,
CVE-2008-4066, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068, CVE-2008-4069
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614e-0ubuntu3

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox to
effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner for Ubuntu
7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 LTS. This provides the corresponding update for
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered errors in the
Firefox URL parsing routines. If a user were tricked into opening a
crafted hyperlink, an attacker could overflow a stack buffer and
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-0016)

It was discovered that the same-origin check in Firefox could be
bypassed. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website,
an attacker may be able to execute JavaScript in the context of a
different website. (CVE-2008-3835)

Several problems were discovered in the JavaScript engine. This
could allow an attacker to execute scripts from page content with
chrome privileges. (CVE-2008-3836)

Paul Nickerson discovered Firefox did not properly process mouse
click events. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious web
page, an attacker could move the content window, which could
potentially be used to force a user to perform unintended drag and
drop operations. (CVE-2008-3837)

Several problems were discovered in the browser engine. This could
allow an attacker to execute code with chrome privileges.
(CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060)

Drew Yao, David Maciejak and other Mozilla developers found several
problems in the browser engine of Firefox. If a user were tricked
into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could cause a denial
of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062,
CVE-2008-4063, CVE-2008-4064)

Dave Reed discovered a flaw in the JavaScript parsing code when
processing certain BOM characters. An attacker could exploit this
to bypass script filters and perform cross-site scripting attacks.
(CVE-2008-4065)

Gareth Heyes discovered a flaw in the HTML parser of Firefox. If a
user were tricked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker
could bypass script filtering and perform cross-site scripting
attacks. (CVE-2008-4066)

Boris Zbarsky and Georgi Guninski independently discovered flaws in
the resource: protocol. An attacker could exploit this to perform
directory traversal, read information about the system, and prompt
the user to save information in a file. (CVE-2008-4067,
CVE-2008-4068)

Billy Hoffman discovered a problem in the XBM decoder. If a user were
tricked into opening a malicious web page or XBM file, an attacker
may be able to cause a denial of service via application crash.
(CVE-2008-4069)

Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

Source archives:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614e-0ubuntu3.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 184879 85df86b82d3b0791f1152f7048e80c59
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614e-0ubuntu3.dsc
Size/MD5: 1800 958f213fa0b3290fd34ff151fac0f11e
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614e.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 47543282 53d4cf0a63c82ad875208a660dfcefd5

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/mozilla-firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614e-0ubuntu3_all.deb
Size/MD5: 53526 a27b80846d4996481aa3c9b13ed6e0d4
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox/mozilla-firefox-dev_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~prepatch080614e-0ubuntu3_all.deb
Size/MD5: 52640 b400a1eb1b12d75503cece2b8f9941c3

amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

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