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mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, xulrunner CVE #(s):CVE-2012-1970 CVE-2012-1972 CVE-2012-1973 CVE-2012-1974 CVE-2012-1975 CVE-2012-1976 CVE-2012-3956 CVE-2012-3957 CVE-2012-3958 CVE-2012-3959 CVE-2012-3960 CVE-2012-3961 CVE-2012-3962 CVE-2012-3963 CVE-2012-3964 CVE-2012-3966 CVE-2012-3967 CVE-2012-3968 CVE-2012-3969 CVE-2012-3970 CVE-2012-3972 CVE-2012-3976 CVE-2012-3978 CVE-2012-3980
Created:August 29, 2012 Updated:January 8, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

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-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976, CVE-2012-3956, CVE-2012-3957, CVE-2012-3958, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3960, CVE-2012-3961, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3963, CVE-2012-3964)

A web page containing a malicious Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image file could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-3969, CVE-2012-3970)

Two flaws were found in the way Firefox rendered certain images using WebGL. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, under certain conditions, possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-3967, CVE-2012-3968)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox decoded embedded bitmap images in Icon Format (ICO) files. A web page containing a malicious ICO file could cause Firefox to crash or, under certain conditions, possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-3966)

A flaw was found in the way the "eval" command was handled by the Firefox Web Console. Running "eval" in the Web Console while viewing a web page containing malicious content could possibly cause Firefox to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-3980)

An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the way Firefox used the format-number feature of XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations). A web page containing malicious content could possibly cause an information leak, or cause Firefox to crash. (CVE-2012-3972)

It was found that the SSL certificate information for a previously visited site could be displayed in the address bar while the main window displayed a new page. This could lead to phishing attacks as attackers could use this flaw to trick users into believing they are viewing a trusted site. (CVE-2012-3976)

A flaw was found in the location object implementation in Firefox. Malicious content could use this flaw to possibly allow restricted content to be loaded. (CVE-2012-3978)

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 10.0.7 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, John Schoenick, Vladimir Vukicevic, Daniel Holbert, Abhishek Arya, Frédéric Hoguin, miaubiz, Arthur Gerkis, Nicolas Grégoire, Mark Poticha, moz_bug_r_a4, and Colby Russell as the original reporters of these issues.

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1210-01 2012-08-29
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1211-01 2012-08-29
CentOS CESA-2012:1210 2012-08-29
CentOS CESA-2012:1210 2012-08-29
CentOS CESA-2012:1211 2012-08-29
CentOS CESA-2012:1211 2012-08-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:145 2012-08-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:146 2012-08-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:147 2012-08-29
Scientific Linux SL-fire-20120829 2012-08-29
Scientific Linux SL-thun-20120829 2012-08-29
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12871 2012-08-30
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12871 2012-08-30
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12871 2012-08-30
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12871 2012-08-30
Mageia MGASA-2012-0245 2012-08-30
Mageia MGASA-2012-0246 2012-08-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1064-1 2012-08-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1065-1 2012-08-30
Oracle ELSA-2012-1210 2012-08-29
Oracle ELSA-2012-1211 2012-08-29
Ubuntu USN-1548-1 2012-08-29
Oracle ELSA-2012-1210 2012-08-30
Ubuntu USN-1551-1 2012-08-30
Slackware SSA:2012-244-02 2012-08-31
Slackware SSA:2012-244-04 2012-08-31
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12892 2012-09-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12892 2012-09-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12892 2012-09-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12892 2012-09-03
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12979 2012-09-07
Fedora FEDORA-2012-12958 2012-09-07
Ubuntu USN-1548-2 2012-09-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1157-1 2012-09-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1167-1 2012-09-14
Debian DSA-2553-1 2012-09-24
Debian DSA-2554-1 2012-09-26
Mageia MGASA-2012-0279 2012-09-30
Ubuntu USN-1551-2 2012-09-28
Debian DSA-2556-1 2012-10-07
Fedora FEDORA-2012-15863 2012-10-11
Debian DSA-2572-1 2012-11-04
Gentoo 201301-01 2013-01-07

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mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Posted Sep 4, 2012 1:37 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Sounds like there were a lot of buffer overflow errors.

Has anyone, um, audited their codebase, to find such things other places?

mozilla: multiple vulnerabilities

Posted Sep 4, 2012 20:23 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

This looks more like what simple fuzzying will produce.

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