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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2012-1088-01 Critical Firefox Flaws

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2012
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Ubuntu has published an urgent Chromium patch addressing several vulnerabilities linked to multiple CVEs. Update your devices without delay.
Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.
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-2012-1948, CVE-2012-1951, CVE-2012-1952, CVE-2012-1953, CVE-2012-1954, CVE-2012-1958, CVE-2012-1962, CVE-2012-1967)
A malicious web page could bypass same-compartment security wrappers (SCSW) and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges. (CVE-2012-1959)
A flaw in the context menu functionality in Firefox could allow a malicious website to bypass intended restrictions and allow a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2012-1966)
A page different to that in the address bar could be displayed when dragging and dropping to the address bar, possibly making it easier for a malicious site or user to perform a phishing attack. (CVE-2012-1950)
A flaw in the way Firefox called history.forward and history.back could allow an attacker to conceal a malicious URL, possibly tricking a user into believing they are viewing a trusted site. (CVE-2012-1955)
A flaw in a parser utility class used by Firefox to parse feeds (such as RSS) could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript with the privileges of the user running Firefox. This issue could have affected other browser components or add-ons that assume the class returns sanitized input. (CVE-2012-1957)
A flaw in the way Firefox handled X-Frame-Options headers could allow a malicious website to perform a clickjacking attack. (CVE-2012-1961)
A flaw in the way Content Security Policy (CSP) reports were generated by Firefox could allow a malicious web page to steal a victim's OAuth 2.0 access tokens and OpenID credentials. (CVE-2012-1963)
A flaw in the way Firefox handled certificate warnings could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to create a crafted warning, possibly tricking a user into accepting an arbitrary certificate as trusted. (CVE-2012-1964)
A flaw in the way Firefox handled feed:javascript URLs could allow output filtering to be bypassed, possibly leading to a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2012-1965)
The nss update RHBA-2012:0337 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 introduced a mitigation for the CVE-2011-3389 flaw. For compatibility reasons, it remains disabled by default in the nss packages. This update makes Firefox enable the mitigation by default. It can be disabled by setting the NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV environment variable to 0 before launching Firefox. (BZ#838879)
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 10.0.6 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bill McCloskey, Abhishek Arya, Arthur Gerkis, Bill Keese, moz_bug_r_a4, Bobby Holley, Code Audit Labs, Mariusz Mlynski, Mario Heiderich, Frédéric Buclin, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Matt McCutchen, Mario Gomes, and Soroush Dalili as the original reporters of these issues.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 10.0.6 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1948 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1950 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1951 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1952 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1953 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1954 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1955 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1957 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1958 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1959 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1961 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1962 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1963 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1964 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1965 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1966 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1967 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012:0337.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: firefox-10.0.6-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.6-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm
x86_64: firefox-10.0.6-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-10.0.6-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.6-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.6-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.6-2.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm
x86_64: xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.6-2.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: firefox-10.0.6-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.6-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.6-2.el5_8.i386.rpm
ia64: firefox-10.0.6-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.6-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.6-2.el5_8.ia64.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.6-2.el5_8.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:1088-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2012-07-17

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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 Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

838879 - Mozilla: Enable mitigation for CVE-2011-3389 (BEAST issue) in firefox/thunderbird

840201 - CVE-2012-1948 CVE-2012-1949 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6) (MFSA 2012-42)

840203 - CVE-2012-1950 Mozilla: Incorrect URL displayed in addressbar through drag and drop (MFSA 2012-43)

840205 - CVE-2012-1951 CVE-2012-1952 CVE-2012-1953 CVE-2012-1954 Mozilla: Gecko memory corruption (MFSA 2012-44)

840206 - CVE-2012-1955 Mozilla: Spoofing issue with location (MFSA 2012-45)

840207 - CVE-2012-1966 Mozilla: XSS and code execution through data: URLs (MFSA 2012-46)

840208 - CVE-2012-1957 Mozilla: Improper filtering of javascript in HTML feed-view (MFSA 2012-47)

840211 - CVE-2012-1958 Mozilla: use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden (MFSA 2012-48)

840212 - CVE-2012-1959 Mozilla: Same-compartment Security Wrappers can be bypassed (MFSA 2012-49)

840214 - CVE-2012-1961 Mozilla: X-Frame-Options header ignored when duplicated (MFSA 2012-51)

840215 - CVE-2012-1962 Mozilla: JSDependentString::undepend string conversion results in memory corruption (MFSA 2012-52)

840220 - CVE-2012-1963 Mozilla: Content Security Policy 1.0 implementation errors cause data leakage (MFSA 2012-53)

840222 - CVE-2012-1964 Mozilla: Clickjacking of certificate warning page (MFSA 2012-54)

840225 - CVE-2012-1965 Mozilla: feed: URLs with an innerURI inherit security context of page (MFSA 2012-55)

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