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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox CVE #(s):CVE-2011-2989 CVE-2011-2991 CVE-2011-2985 CVE-2011-2993 CVE-2011-2988 CVE-2011-2987 CVE-2011-2990 CVE-2011-2992
Created:August 17, 2011 Updated:July 23, 2012
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Aral Yaman discovered a vulnerability in the WebGL engine. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2989)

Vivekanand Bolajwar discovered a vulnerability in the JavaScript engine. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2991)

Robert Kaiser, Jesse Ruderman, Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Martijn Wargers, Travis Emmitt, Bob Clary, and Jonathan Watt discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser rendering engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2985)

Rafael Gieschke discovered that unsigned JavaScript could call into a script inside a signed JAR. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the identity and permissions of the signed JAR. (CVE-2011-2993)

Michael Jordon discovered that an overly long shader program could cause a buffer overrun. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2988)

Michael Jordon discovered a heap overflow in the ANGLE library used in Firefox's WebGL implementation. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2987)

Mike Cardwell discovered that Content Security Policy violation reports failed to strip out proxy authorization credentials from the list of request headers. This could allow a malicious website to capture proxy authorization credentials. Daniel Veditz discovered that redirecting to a website with Content Security Policy resulted in the incorrect resolution of hosts in the constructed policy. This could allow a malicious website to circumvent the Content Security Policy of another website. (CVE-2011-2990)

Bert Hubert and Theo Snelleman discovered a vulnerability in the Ogg reader. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2992)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1192-3 2011-10-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0957-2 2011-08-30
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:037 2011-08-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0957-1 2011-08-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0935-1 2011-08-23
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11084 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11084 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11084 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11084 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11084 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11084 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11084 2011-08-18
Ubuntu USN-1192-2 2011-08-17
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11106 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11106 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11106 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11106 2011-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2011-11106 2011-08-18
Ubuntu USN-1192-1 2011-08-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0567-1 2012-04-27
Mageia MGASA-2012-0176 2012-07-21
Gentoo 201301-01 2013-01-07

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