firefox: multiple vulnerabilties
| Package(s): | firefox | CVE #(s): | CVE-2013-5591 CVE-2013-5592 CVE-2013-5593 CVE-2013-5596 CVE-2013-5598 CVE-2013-5603 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | October 30, 2013 | Updated: | December 1, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Ubuntu advisory:
Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-5591, CVE-2013-5592) Jordi Chancel discovered that HTML select elements could display arbitrary content. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing or clickjacking attacks (CVE-2013-5593) Ezra Pool discovered a crash on extremely large pages. An attacked could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-5596) Cody Crews discovered a way to append an iframe in to an embedded PDF object displayed with PDF.js. An attacked could potentially exploit this to read local files, leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2013-5598) Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free when interacting with HTML document templates. 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-2013-5603) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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