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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2295-1 Critical: Firefox Memory Problems and DDoS

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2014
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Discover critical Firefox vulnerabilities in Ubuntu USN-2295-1 that risk crashes and unauthorized code execution.
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Summary

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a malicious website.

Software Description:

- firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Christian Holler, David Keeler, Byron Campen, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman,

Andrew McCreight, Alon Zakai, Bobby Holley, Jonathan Watt, Shu-yu Guo,

Steve Fink, Terrence Cole, Gijs Kruitbosch and Cătălin Badea discovered

multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to

opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit

these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute

arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.

(CVE-2014-1547, CVE-2014-1548)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow when interacting with WebAudio

buffers. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of

service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1549)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution Ubuntu memory issue application crash Firefox

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2295-1

CVE-2014-1544, CVE-2014-1547, CVE-2014-1548, CVE-2014-1549,

CVE-2014-1550, CVE-2014-1552, CVE-2014-1555, CVE-2014-1556,

CVE-2014-1557, CVE-2014-1558, CVE-2014-1559, CVE-2014-1560,

CVE-2014-1561, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1342311

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution Ubuntu memory issue application crash Firefox

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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