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USN-957-2 -- Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700121Date: (C)2011-01-28   (M)2024-02-19
Class: PATCHFamily: unix




USN-957-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Daniel Holbert discovered that the fix for CVE-2010-1214 introduced a regression which did not properly initialize a plugin pointer. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. An integer overflow was discovered in how Firefox processed plugin parameters. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. A flaw was discovered in the Firefox JavaScript engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker code execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges. An integer overflow was discovered in how Firefox processed CSS values. An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. An integer overflow was discovered in how Firefox interpreted the XUL <tree> element. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. Aki Helin discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain malformed PNG images. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted PNG file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Yosuke Hasegawa and Vladimir Vukicevic discovered that the same-origin check in Firefox could be bypassed by utilizing the importScripts Web Worker method. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an attacker could exploit this to read data from other domains. O. Andersen that Firefox did not properly map undefined positions within certain 8 bit encodings. An attacker could utilize this to perform cross-site scripting attacks. Michal Zalewski discovered flaws in how Firefox processed the HTTP 204 code. An attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a phishing attack. Jordi Chancel discovered that Firefox did not properly handle when a server responds to an HTTPS request with plaintext and then processes JavaScript history events. An attacker could exploit this to spoof the location bar, such as in a phishing attack. Chris Evans discovered that Firefox did not properly process improper CSS selectors. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, an attacker could exploit this to read data from other domains. Soroush Dalili discovered that Firefox did not properly handle script error output. An attacker could use this to access URL parameters from other domains

Platform:
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product:
Firefox
Reference:
USN-957-2
CVE-2010-2755
CVE-2010-1214
CVE-2010-1208
CVE-2010-1209
CVE-2010-1211
CVE-2010-1212
CVE-2010-1215
CVE-2010-2752
CVE-2010-2753
CVE-2010-1205
CVE-2010-1213
CVE-2010-1207
CVE-2010-1210
CVE-2010-1206
CVE-2010-2751
CVE-2010-0654
CVE-2010-2754
CVE    17
CVE-2010-1211
CVE-2010-2752
CVE-2010-1212
CVE-2010-2751
...
CPE    2
cpe:/o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:8.04
cpe:/o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:10.04

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