USN-1184-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

19 August 2011

Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in Firefox and Xulrunner.

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Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, and Bob Clary 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-2011-2982)

It was discovered that a vulnerability in event management code could
permit JavaScript to be run in the wrong context. This could potentially
allow a malicious website to run code as another website or with escalated
privileges within the browser. (CVE-2011-2981)

It was discovered that an SVG text manipulation routine contained a
dangling pointer vulnerability. An attacker could potentially use this to
crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-0084)

It was discovered that web content could receive chrome privileges if it
registered for drop events and a browser tab element was dropped into the
content area. This could potentially allow a malicious website to run code
with escalated privileges within the browser. (CVE-2011-2984)

It was discovered that appendChild contained a dangling pointer
vulnerability. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2011-2378)

It was discovered that data from other domains could be read when
RegExp.input was set. This could potentially allow a malicious website
access to private data from other domains. (CVE-2011-2983)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox and any
applications that use Xulrunner to effect the necessary changes.

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