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Red Hat: 2009:1530-01 Critical: firefox security threat

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential Firefox patch released for Red Hat fixes various vulnerabilities. Keep your system protected by applying the latest updates.
Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by ...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. nspr provides the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR).
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handles form history. A malicious web page could steal saved form data by synthesizing input events, causing the browser to auto-fill form fields (which could then be read by an attacker). (CVE-2009-3370)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox creates temporary file names for downloaded files. If a local attacker knows the name of a file Firefox is going to download, they can replace the contents of that file with arbitrary contents. (CVE-2009-3274)
A flaw was found in the Firefox Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file processor. If Firefox loads a malicious PAC file, it could crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-3372)
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Firefox GIF image processor. A malicious GIF image could crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-3373)
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Firefox string to floating point conversion routines. A web page containing malicious JavaScript could crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-1563)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handles text selection. A malicious website may be able to read highlighted text in a different domain (e.g. another website the user is viewing), bypassing the same-origin policy. (CVE-2009-3375)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox displays a right-to-left override character when downloading a file. In these cases, the name displayed in the title bar differs from the name displayed in the dialog body. An attacker could use this flaw to trick a user into downloading a file that has a file name or extension that differs from what the user expected. (CVE-2009-3376)
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-3374, CVE-2009-3380, CVE-2009-3382)
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.0.15. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this errata.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.0.15, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1563 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3274 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3370 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3372 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3373 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3374 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3375 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3376 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3380 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3382 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: firefox-3.0.15-3.el4.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-3.0.15-3.el4.i386.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.i386.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.i386.rpm nspr-devel-4.7.6-1.el4_8.i386.rpm
ia64: firefox-3.0.15-3.el4.ia64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-3.0.15-3.el4.ia64.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.i386.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ia64.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.i386.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ia64.rpm nspr-devel-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ia64.rpm
ppc: firefox-3.0.15-3.el4.ppc.rpm firefox-debuginfo-3.0.15-3.el4.ppc.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ppc.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ppc64.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ppc.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ppc64.rpm nspr-devel-4.7.6-1.el4_8.ppc.rpm
s390: firefox-3.0.15-3.el4.s390.rpm firefox-debuginfo-3.0.15-3.el4.s390.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390.rpm nspr-devel-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390.rpm
s390x: firefox-3.0.15-3.el4.s390x.rpm firefox-debuginfo-3.0.15-3.el4.s390x.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390x.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390x.rpm nspr-devel-4.7.6-1.el4_8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: firefox-3.0.15-3.el4.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-3.0.15-3.el4.x86_64.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.i386.rpm nspr-4.7.6-1.el4_8.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1530-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2009-10-27

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

524815 - CVE-2009-3274 Firefox: Predictable /tmp pathname use

530151 - CVE-2009-3370 Firefox form history vulnerable to stealing

530155 - CVE-2009-3372 Firefox crash in proxy auto-configuration regexp parsing

530156 - CVE-2009-3373 Firefox heap buffer overflow in GIF color map parser

530157 - CVE-2009-3374 Firefox chrome privilege escalation in XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS()

530162 - CVE-2009-1563 Firefox heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion

530167 - CVE-2009-3375 Firefox cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection()

530168 - CVE-2009-3376 Firefox download filename spoofing with RTL override

530567 - CVE-2009-3380 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption

530569 - CVE-2009-3382 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption

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