[Trisquel-security] [USN-1157-3] Firefox regression

Micah Gersten micah at canonical.com
Thu Jun 23 21:58:25 CEST 2011 

==========================================================================
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1157-3
June 23, 2011

firefox regression
==========================================================================

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.04

Summary:

Under certain circumstances, the updated translations could unintentionally
install firefox.

Software Description:
- firefox: Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla

Details:

USN-1157-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Unfortunately, this update
produced the side effect of pulling in Firefox on some systems that did not
have it installed during a dist-upgrade due to changes in the Ubuntu
language packs. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the
inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

 Bob Clary, Kevin Brosnan, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Biesinger,
 Bas Schouten, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Olli Pettay, Daniel Veditz and
 Marcia Knous discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser
 rendering engine. An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with
 the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2375)
 
 Martin Barbella discovered that under certain conditions, viewing a XUL
 document while JavaScript was disabled caused deleted memory to be
 accessed. An attacker could potentially use this to crash Firefox or
 execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
 (CVE-2011-2373)
 
 Jordi Chancel discovered a vulnerability on multipart/x-mixed-replace
 images due to memory corruption. An attacker could potentially use this to
 crash Firefox or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
 invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2377)
 
 Chris Rohlf and Yan Ivnitskiy discovered an integer overflow vulnerability
 in JavaScript Arrays. An attacker could potentially use this to execute
 arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
 (CVE-2011-2371)
 
 It was discovered that Firefox's WebGL textures did not honor same-origin
 policy. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, an attacker
 could potentially view image data from a different site. (CVE-2011-2366)
 
 Christoph Diehl discovered an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in WebGL
 code. An attacker could potentially read data that other processes had
 stored in the GPU. (CVE-2011-2367)
 
 Christoph Diehl discovered an invalid write vulnerability in WebGL code. An
 attacker could potentially use this to execute arbitrary code with the
 privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2368)
 
 It was discovered that an unauthorized site could trigger an installation
 dialog for addons and themes. If a user were tricked into viewing a
 malicious site, an attacker could possibly trick the user into installing a
 malicious addon or theme. (CVE-2011-2370)
 
 Mario Heiderich discovered a vulnerability in displaying decoded
 HTML-encoded entities inside SVG elements. An attacker could utilize this
 to perform cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2011-2369)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 11.04:
  firefox-locale-af               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ar               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-as               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ast              5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-be               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-bg               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-bn               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-br               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-bs               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ca               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-cs               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-cy               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-da               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-de               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-el               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-en               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-eo               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-es               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-et               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-eu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fa               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fi               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-fy               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ga               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-gd               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-gl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-gu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-he               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hi               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-hy               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-id               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-is               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-it               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ja               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ka               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-kk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-kn               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ko               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ku               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-lg               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-lt               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-lv               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-mai              5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-mk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ml               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-mr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nb               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nn               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-nso              5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-oc               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-or               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-pa               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-pl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-pt               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ro               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ru               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-si               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sl               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sq               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-sv               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-ta               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-te               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-th               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-tr               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-uk               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-vi               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-zh-hans          5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-zh-hant          5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  firefox-locale-zu               5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://launchpad.net/bugs/800857

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2



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