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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox CVE #(s):CVE-2011-3101 CVE-2012-1937 CVE-2012-1938 CVE-2012-1939 CVE-2012-1940 CVE-2012-1941 CVE-2012-1944 CVE-2012-1945 CVE-2012-1946 CVE-2012-1947
Created:June 6, 2012 Updated:January 8, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

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-2011-3101, CVE-2012-1937, CVE-2012-1938, CVE-2012-1939, CVE-2012-1940, CVE-2012-1941, CVE-2012-1946, CVE-2012-1947)

Note: CVE-2011-3101 only affected users of certain NVIDIA display drivers with graphics cards that have hardware acceleration enabled.

It was found that the Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation in Firefox no longer blocked Firefox inline event handlers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to possibly bypass a web application's intended restrictions, if that application relied on CSP to protect against flaws such as cross-site scripting (XSS). (CVE-2012-1944)

If a web server hosted HTML files that are stored on a Microsoft Windows share, or a Samba share, loading such files with Firefox could result in Windows shortcut files (.lnk) in the same share also being loaded. An attacker could use this flaw to view the contents of local files and directories on the victim's system. This issue also affected users opening HTML files from Microsoft Windows shares, or Samba shares, that are mounted on their systems. (CVE-2012-1945)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0710-01 2012-06-05
CentOS CESA-2012:0710 2012-06-06
CentOS CESA-2012:0710 2012-06-06
Scientific Linux SL-fire-20120606 2012-06-06
Ubuntu USN-1463-1 2012-06-06
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0715-01 2012-06-06
Scientific Linux SL-thun-20120607 2012-06-07
Oracle ELSA-2012-0710 2012-06-06
Oracle ELSA-2012-0715 2012-06-07
CentOS CESA-2012:0715 2012-06-07
Debian DSA-2489-1 2012-06-07
Debian DSA-2488-1 2012-06-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:088 2012-06-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0746-1 2012-06-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0760-1 2012-06-19
Ubuntu USN-1463-3 2012-06-20
Slackware SSA:2012-166-02 2012-06-14
Slackware SSA:2012-166-03 2012-06-14
Slackware SSA:2012-166-04 2012-06-14
Ubuntu USN-1463-4 2012-06-22
Debian DSA-2499-1 2012-06-24
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:088-1 2012-06-23
Ubuntu USN-1463-5 2012-06-26
Ubuntu USN-1463-6 2012-06-26
Mageia MGASA-2012-0135 2012-06-28
Mageia MGASA-2012-0136 2012-06-29
Mageia MGASA-2012-0176 2012-07-21
Gentoo 201301-01 2013-01-07

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