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Scientific Linux alert SL-fire-20121121 (firefox)

From:  Pat Riehecky <riehecky@fnal.gov>
To:  "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ERRATA@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV" <SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ERRATA@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV>
Subject:  Security ERRATA Critical: firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
Date:  Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:40:08 -0600
Message-ID:  <50AD03E8.8070102@fnal.gov>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update Issue Date: 2012-11-20 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-5842 CVE-2012-4202 CVE-2012-4201 CVE-2012-5841 CVE-2012-4207 CVE-2012-4209 CVE-2012-4214 CVE-2012-4215 CVE-2012-4216 CVE-2012-5829 CVE-2012-5839 CVE-2012-5840 CVE-2012-5830 CVE-2012-5833 CVE-2012-5835 CVE-2012-4210 -- 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-2012-4214, CVE-2012-4215, CVE-2012-4216, CVE-2012-5829, CVE-2012-5830, CVE-2012-5833, CVE-2012-5835, CVE-2012-5839, CVE-2012-5840, CVE-2012-5842) A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Firefox handled GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) images. A web page containing a malicious GIF image could cause Firefox to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-4202) A flaw was found in the way the Style Inspector tool in Firefox handled certain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Running the tool (Tools -> Web Developer -> Inspect) on malicious CSS could result in the execution of HTML and CSS content with chrome privileges. (CVE-2012-4210) A flaw was found in the way Firefox decoded the HZ-GB-2312 character encoding. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to run JavaScript code with the permissions of a different website. (CVE-2012-4207) A flaw was found in the location object implementation in Firefox. Malicious content could possibly use this flaw to allow restricted content to be loaded by plug-ins. (CVE-2012-4209) A flaw was found in the way cross-origin wrappers were implemented. Malicious content could use this flaw to perform cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-5841) A flaw was found in the evalInSandbox implementation in Firefox. Malicious content could use this flaw to perform cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-4201) After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect. -- SL5 x86_64 firefox-10.0.11-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-10.0.11-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.11-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.11-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.11-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.11-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm i386 firefox-10.0.11-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.11-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.11-1.el5_8.i386.rpm SL6 x86_64 firefox-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm firefox-10.0.11-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm xulrunner-10.0.11-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.11-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm i386 firefox-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm xulrunner-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.11-1.el6_3.i686.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team


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