Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-1463-3 Moderate: Firefox Rendering Defects

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June 20, 2012

USN-1463-1 introduced regressions in Firefox.

Summary

USN-1463-1 introduced regressions in Firefox.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

USN-1463-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The new package caused a

regression in the rendering of Hebrew text and the ability of the Hotmail

inbox to auto-update. This update fixes the problem.

Original advisory details:

Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Christian Holler, Andrew

McCreight, Olli Pettay, Boris Zbarsky, and Brian Bondy discovered memory

safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a

specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a

denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with

the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-1937, CVE-2012-1938)

It was discovered that Mozilla's WebGL implementation exposed a bug in

certain NVIDIA graphics drivers. The impact of this issue has not been

disclosed at this time. (CVE...

Read the Full Advisory

Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu moderate severity Denial of Service web browser Firefox rendering issues

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  firefox                         13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  firefox                         13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  firefox                         13.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.