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Gentoo: GLSA 201504-01 Normal: Mozilla Products Arbitrary Code Risks

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2015
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several vulnerabilities are impacting Mozilla applications on Gentoo systems. Crucial patches are necessary to address these threats and enhance protection.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, the worst of which may allow user-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo software update arbitrary code execution mozilla normal severity browser threats

Resolution

All firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-31.5.3"
All firefox-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-bin-31.5.3"
All thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-31.5.0"
All thunderbird-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-31.5.0"
All seamonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-2.33.1"
All seamonkey-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/seamonkey-bin-2.33.1"
All nspr users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/nspr-4.10.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-1741 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1741 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-2566 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2566 [ 3 ] CVE-2013-5590 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5590 [ 4 ] CVE-2013-5591 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5591 [ 5 ] CVE-2013-5592 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5592 [ 6 ] CVE-2013-5593 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5593 [ 7 ] CVE-2013-5595 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5595 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-5596 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5596 [ 9 ] CVE-2013-5597 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5597 [ 10 ] CVE-2013-5598 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5598 [ 11 ] CVE-2013-5599 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5599 [ 12 ] CVE-2013-5600 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5600 [ 13 ] CVE-2013-5601 http://...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 07, 2015
Bugs: #489796, #491234, #493850, #500320, #505072, #509050,
ID: 201504-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo software update arbitrary code execution mozilla normal severity browser threats

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, the worst of which may allow user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird an open-source email client, both from the Mozilla Project. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as the ‘Mozilla Application Suite’.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/firefox < 31.5.3 >= 31.5.3 2 www-client/firefox-bin < 31.5.3 >= 31.5.3 3 mail-client/thunderbird < 31.5.0 >= 31.5.0 4 mail-client/thunderbird-bin < 31.5.0 >= 31.5.0 5 www-client/seamonkey < 2.33.1 >= 2.33.1 6 www-client/seamonkey-bin < 2.33.1 >= 2.33.1 7 dev-libs/nspr < 4.10.6 >= 4.10.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 affected packages

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page or email, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to perform Man-in-the-Middle attacks, obtain sensitive information, spoof the address bar, conduct clickjacking attacks, bypass security restrictions and protection mechanisms, or have other unspecified impact.

Workaround

There are no known workarounds at this time.

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