[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0471-1: important: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for Mozilla Firefox

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0471-1

Rating: important

References: #804248 #808243

Cross-References: CVE-2013-0787

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

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An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata

is now available. It includes four new package versions.

 

Description:

 

 

MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.4ESR release.

Besides the major version update from the 10ESR stable

release line to the 17ESR stable release line, this update

brings critical security and bugfixes:

 

* MFSA 2013-29 / CVE-2013-0787: VUPEN Security, via

TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a

use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script

is run by the document.execCommand() function while

internal editor operations are occurring. This could allow

for arbitrary code execution.

 

The Firefox 17.0.3ESR release also contains lots of

security fixes:

 

* MFSA 2013-28: Security researcher Abhishek Arya

(Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the

Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series of

use-after-free, out of bounds read, and buffer overflow

problems rated as low to critical security issues in

shipped software. Some of these issues are potentially

exploitable, allowing for remote code execution. We would

also like to thank Abhishek for reporting four additional

use-after-free and out of bounds write flaws introduced

during Firefox development that were fixed before general

release.

 

The following issues have been fixed in Firefox 19 and ESR

17.0.3:

 

* Heap-use-after-free in

nsOverflowContinuationTracker::Finish, with

-moz-columns (CVE-2013-0780)

*

 

Heap-buffer-overflow WRITE in

nsSaveAsCharset::DoCharsetConversion (CVE-2013-0782)

 

*

 

MFSA 2013-27 / CVE-2013-0776: Google security

researcher Michal Zalewski reported an issue where the

browser displayed the content of a proxy's 407 response if

a user canceled the proxy's authentication prompt. In this

circumstance, the addressbar will continue to show the

requested site's address, including HTTPS addresses that

appear to be secure. This spoofing of addresses can be used

for phishing attacks by fooling users into entering

credentials, for example.

 

*

 

MFSA 2013-26 / CVE-2013-0775: Security researcher

Nils reported a use-after-free in nsImageLoadingContent

when content script is executed. This could allow for

arbitrary code execution.

 

*

 

MFSA 2013-25 / CVE-2013-0774: Mozilla security

researcher Frederik Braun discovered that since Firefox 15

the file system location of the active browser profile was

available to JavaScript workers. While not dangerous by

itself, this could potentially be combined with other

vulnerabilities to target the profile in an attack.

 

*

 

MFSA 2013-24 / CVE-2013-0773: Mozilla developer Bobby

Holley discovered that it was possible to bypass some

protections in Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and System Only

Wrappers (SOW), making their prototypes mutable by web

content. This could be used leak information from chrome

objects and possibly allow for arbitrary code execution.

 

*

 

MFSA 2013-23 / CVE-2013-0765: Mozilla developer Boris

Zbarsky reported that in some circumstances a wrapped

WebIDL object can be wrapped multiple times, overwriting

the existing wrapped state. This could lead to an

exploitable condition in rare cases.

 

*

 

MFSA 2013-22 / CVE-2013-0772: Using the Address

Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from

OUSPG found an out-of-bounds read while rendering GIF

format images. This could cause a non-exploitable crash and

could also attempt to render normally inaccesible data as

part of the image.

 

*

 

MFSA 2013-21: Mozilla developers identified and fixed

several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in

Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these

bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain

circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at

least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary

code.

 

Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse

Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew, and Wayne Mery

reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect

Firefox ESR 17, and Firefox 18.

 

*

 

Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 17.0.3, and

Firefox 19 (CVE-2013-0783)

 

Security Issue references:

 

* CVE-2013-0787

 

 

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.1 and 4.9.4]:

 

mozilla-nspr-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nspr-devel-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-3.14.1-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-devel-3.14.1-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-tools-3.14.1-0.6.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x) [New Version: 17.0.4esr and 7]:

 

MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.7.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED-7-0.10.4

MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.7.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.1 and 4.9.4]:

 

mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.14.1-0.6.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ia64) [New Version: 3.14.1 and 4.9.4]:

 

mozilla-nspr-x86-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-x86-3.14.1-0.6.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (ppc) [New Version: 3.14.1 and 4.9.4]:

 

mozilla-nspr-64bit-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-64bit-3.14.1-0.6.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.1 and 4.9.4]:

 

mhtml-firefox-0.5-1.13.4

mozilla-nspr-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nspr-devel-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-3.14.1-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-devel-3.14.1-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-tools-3.14.1-0.6.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.1 and 4.9.4]:

 

mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.9.4-0.6.3

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.14.1-0.6.3

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586) [New Version: 17.0.4esr and 7]:

 

MozillaFirefox-17.0.4esr-0.7.1

MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED-7-0.10.4

MozillaFirefox-translations-17.0.4esr-0.7.1

 

- SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.14.1]:

 

firefox3-python-base-2.6.8-0.9.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.14.1-0.6.3

 

- SLE SDK 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x):

 

MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-17.0.4esr-0.7.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0787.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/804248

https://bugzilla.novell.com/808243

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=e8a17727b5ca4754a7c066ed49b6d2d9

 

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