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Ubuntu 11.04: USN-1157-4 Critical: Firefox Security Vulnerability Risk

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2011
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A critical Firefox vulnerability has been identified in Ubuntu, requiring immediate updates to ensure system stability and prevent crashes.
Under certain circumstances, the updated translations could unintentionally install firefox.

Summary

Under certain circumstances, the updated translations could unintentionally

install firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla

Details:

USN-1157-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Unfortunately, this update

produced the side effect of pulling in Firefox on some systems that did not

have it installed during a dist-upgrade due to changes in the Ubuntu

language packs. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the

inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Bob Clary, Kevin Brosnan, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Biesinger,

Bas Schouten, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Olli Pettay, Daniel Veditz and

Marcia Knous discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser

rendering engine. An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with

the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2375)

Martin Barbella discovered that under certain conditions, viewing a XUL

document while ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution firefox memory issue ubuntu

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04:
  firefox-locale-af               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ar               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-as               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ast              5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-be               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-bg               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-bn               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-br               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-bs               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ca               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-cs               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-cy               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-da               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-de               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-el               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-en               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-eo               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-es               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-et               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-eu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fa               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fi               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fy               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ga               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-gd               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-gl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-gu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-he               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hi               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hy               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-id               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-is               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-it               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ja               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ka               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-kk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-kn               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ko               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ku               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-lg               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-lt               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-lv               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-mai              5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-mk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ml               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-mr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nb               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nn               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nso              5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-oc               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-or               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-pa               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-pl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-pt               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ro               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ru               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-si               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sq               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sv               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ta               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-te               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-th               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-tr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-uk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-vi               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-zh-hans          5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-zh-hant          5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-zu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/800857

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June 23, 2011

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution firefox memory issue ubuntu

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2

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