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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6: Addressing Critical Firefox Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2013
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Ubuntu's essential notice for chromium upgrades addresses significant vulnerabilities in 18.04 and 20.04, bolstering overall system safety.
Updated firefox packages that fix several 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/knowledge/articles/11258

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.
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-2013-0744, CVE-2013-0746, CVE-2013-0750, CVE-2013-0753, CVE-2013-0754, CVE-2013-0762, CVE-2013-0766, CVE-2013-0767, CVE-2013-0769)
A flaw was found in the way Chrome Object Wrappers were implemented. Malicious content could be used to cause Firefox to execute arbitrary code via plug-ins installed in Firefox. (CVE-2013-0758)
A flaw in the way Firefox displayed URL values in the address bar could allow a malicious site or user to perform a phishing attack. (CVE-2013-0759)
An information disclosure flaw was found in the way certain JavaScript functions were implemented in Firefox. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and other security restrictions. (CVE-2013-0748)
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 10.0.12 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 Atte Kettunen, Boris Zbarsky, pa_kt, regenrecht, Abhishek Arya, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, Chiaki Ishikawa, Mariusz Mlynski, Masato Kinugawa, and Jesse Ruderman as the original reporters of these issues.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 10.0.12 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-2013-0744 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0746 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0748 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0750 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0753 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0754 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0758 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0759 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0762 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0766 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0767 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0769 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
x86_64: firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
x86_64: xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
ia64: firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0144-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2013-01-08

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now availablefor 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

891811 - CVE-2013-0769 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:10.0.12) (MFSA 2013-01)

891821 - CVE-2013-0762 CVE-2013-0766 CVE-2013-0767 Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2013-02)

891824 - CVE-2013-0759 Mozilla: URL spoofing in addressbar during page loads (MFSA 2013-04)

891825 - CVE-2013-0744 Mozilla: Use-after-free when displaying table with many columns and column groups (MFSA 2013-05)

892142 - CVE-2013-0746 Mozilla: Compartment mismatch with quickstubs returned values (MFSA 2013-09)

892144 - CVE-2013-0748 Mozilla: Address space layout leaked in XBL objects (MFSA 2013-11)

892145 - CVE-2013-0750 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in Javascript string concatenation (MFSA 2013-12)

892148 - CVE-2013-0758 Mozilla: Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) bypass through plugin objects (MFSA 2013-15)

892149 - CVE-2013-0753 Mozilla: Use-after-free in serializeToStream (MFSA 2013-16)

892150 - CVE-2013-0754 Mozilla: Use-after-free in ListenerManager (MFSA 2013-17)

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