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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: USN-2329-1 Critical: Firefox DoS and Code Execution

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Enhance your Firefox version on Ubuntu to incorporate essential patches that thwart system failures and block unpermitted script 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:

Jan de Mooij, Christian Holler, Karl Tomlinson, Randell Jesup, Gary Kwong,

Jesse Ruderman, JW Wang and David Weir 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-2014-1553,

CVE-2014-1554, CVE-2014-1562)

Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free during DOM interactions with

SVG. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted page, 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-2014-1563)

Michal Zalewski discove...

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution DoS firefox ubuntu memory safety malicious website

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firefox                         32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  firefox                         32.0+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-2329-1

CVE-2014-1553, CVE-2014-1554, CVE-2014-1562, CVE-2014-1563,

CVE-2014-1564, CVE-2014-1565, CVE-2014-1567

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September 02, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution DoS firefox ubuntu memory safety malicious website

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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