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Today's Topics:

1. [USN-1600-1] Firefox vulnerabilities (Jamie Strandboge)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:40:35 -0500
From: Jamie Strandboge <jamie@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-1600-1] Firefox vulnerabilities
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1600-1
October 09, 2012

firefox vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Multiple security issues were fixed in Firefox.

Software Description:
- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Henrik Skupin, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Soroush Dalili and others
discovered several memory corruption flaws in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted web page, a remote attacker could
cause Firefox to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user
invoking the program. (CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3983, CVE-2012-3988,
CVE-2012-3989)

David Bloom and Jordi Chancel discovered that Firefox did not always
properly handle the <select> element. A remote attacker could exploit this
to conduct URL spoofing and clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2012-3984)

Collin Jackson discovered that Firefox did not properly follow the HTML5
specification for document.domain behavior. A remote attacker could exploit
this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via javascript
execution. (CVE-2012-3985)

Johnny Stenback discovered that Firefox did not properly perform security
checks on tests methods for DOMWindowUtils. (CVE-2012-3986)

Alice White discovered that the security checks for GetProperty could be
bypassed when using JSAPI. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted web page, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary
code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-3991)

Mariusz Mlynski discovered a history state error in Firefox. A remote
attacker could exploit this to spoof the location property to inject script
or intercept posted data. (CVE-2012-3992)

Mariusz Mlynski and others discovered several flays in Firefox that allowed
a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
(CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-3994, CVE-2012-4184)

Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen and others discovered several memory flaws in
Firefox when using the Address Sanitizer tool. If a user were tricked into
opening a specially crafted web page, a remote attacker could cause Firefox
to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180,
CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186,
CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
firefox 16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
firefox 16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
firefox 16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
firefox 16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the
necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1600-1
CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3983, CVE-2012-3984, CVE-2012-3985,
CVE-2012-3986, CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3989, CVE-2012-3990,
CVE-2012-3991, CVE-2012-3992, CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-3994,
CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181,
CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4184, CVE-2012-4185,
CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/16.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1




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