USN-2372-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
14 October 2014
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Releases
Packages
- firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser
Details
Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard,
Carsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and
Jeff Walden discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575)
Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during CSS manipulation. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, 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-2014-1576)
Holger Fuhrmannek discovered an out-of-bounds read with Web Audio. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to steal sensitive information.
(CVE-2014-1577)
Abhishek Arya discovered an out-of-bounds write when buffering WebM video
in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, 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-2014-1578)
Michal Zalewski discovered that memory may not be correctly initialized
when rendering a malformed GIF in to a canvas in some circumstances. If
a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to steal sensitive information.
(CVE-2014-1580)
A use-after-free was discovered during text layout in some circumstances.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, 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-2014-1581)
Patrick McManus and David Keeler discovered 2 issues that could result
in certificate pinning being bypassed in some circumstances. An attacker
with a fraudulent certificate could potentially exploit this conduct a
machine-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2014-1582, CVE-2014-1584)
Eric Shepherd and Jan-Ivar Bruaroey discovered issues with video sharing
via WebRTC in iframes, where video continues to be shared after being
stopped and navigating to a new site doesn't turn off the camera. An
attacker could potentially exploit this to access the camera without the
user being aware. (CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586)
Boris Zbarsky discovered that webapps could use the Alarm API to read the
values of cross-origin references. If a user were tricked in to installing
a specially crafter webapp, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2014-1583)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make
all the necessary changes.
Related notices
- USN-2373-1: thunderbird-locale-fy, thunderbird-locale-zh-tw, xul-ext-gdata-provider, thunderbird-locale-en-gb, thunderbird-locale-ta, thunderbird-locale-ja, thunderbird-locale-pa-in, thunderbird-locale-pt, thunderbird-locale-ro, thunderbird-locale-ga, thunderbird-locale-ru, thunderbird-locale-zh-hans, thunderbird-locale-ast, thunderbird-locale-he, thunderbird-locale-da, thunderbird-locale-id, thunderbird-locale-af, thunderbird-locale-fr, thunderbird-globalmenu, thunderbird-locale-gl, thunderbird-locale-pt-pt, thunderbird-locale-el, thunderbird-locale-ca, thunderbird-gnome-support, thunderbird-locale-uk, thunderbird-mozsymbols, thunderbird-locale-lt, thunderbird-locale-hr, thunderbird-locale-eu, thunderbird-locale-zh-cn, thunderbird-locale-zh-hant, thunderbird-locale-sl, thunderbird-locale-gd, thunderbird-locale-tr, thunderbird-locale-vi, xul-ext-calendar-timezones, thunderbird-locale-es-es, thunderbird-dev, xul-ext-lightning, thunderbird-locale-bn-bd, thunderbird-locale-nb-no, thunderbird-locale-sq, thunderbird-locale-sk, thunderbird-locale-sr, thunderbird-locale-bg, thunderbird-locale-be, thunderbird-locale-es-ar, thunderbird-locale-nl, thunderbird-locale-nn-no, thunderbird-locale-it, thunderbird-locale-hu, thunderbird-locale-nb, thunderbird-locale-bn, thunderbird-locale-et, thunderbird-locale-ta-lk, thunderbird, thunderbird-locale-fi, thunderbird-locale-cs, thunderbird-locale-fy-nl, thunderbird-locale-ko, thunderbird-locale-si, thunderbird-locale-en-us, thunderbird-locale-pl, thunderbird-locale-ga-ie, thunderbird-locale-sv-se, thunderbird-locale-mk, thunderbird-locale-nn, thunderbird-locale-is, thunderbird-locale-ka, thunderbird-locale-pt-br, thunderbird-locale-pa, thunderbird-locale-en, thunderbird-locale-br, thunderbird-locale-ar, thunderbird-locale-de, thunderbird-testsuite, thunderbird-locale-sv, thunderbird-locale-hy, thunderbird-locale-rm, thunderbird-locale-es