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Ubuntu: USN-3260-1 (CVE-2017-5468): Firefox vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3260-1 (CVE-2017-5468): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/21/2017
Modified
03/21/2018

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-5E0A038A-CA30-416D-A2F5-38CBF5E7DF33:

Mozilla Foundation reports:

CVE-2017-5433: Use-after-free in SMIL animation functions

CVE-2017-5435: Use-after-free during transaction processing in the editor

CVE-2017-5436: Out-of-bounds write with malicious font in Graphite 2

CVE-2017-5461: Out-of-bounds write in Base64 encoding in NSS

CVE-2017-5459: Buffer overflow in WebGL

CVE-2017-5466: Origin confusion when reloading isolated data:text/html URL

CVE-2017-5434: Use-after-free during focus handling

CVE-2017-5432: Use-after-free in text input selection

CVE-2017-5460: Use-after-free in frame selection

CVE-2017-5438: Use-after-free in nsAutoPtr during XSLT processing

CVE-2017-5439: Use-after-free in nsTArray Length() during XSLT processing

CVE-2017-5440: Use-after-free in txExecutionState destructor during XSLT processing

CVE-2017-5441: Use-after-free with selection during scroll events

CVE-2017-5442: Use-after-free during style changes

CVE-2017-5464: Memory corruption with accessibility and DOM manipulation

CVE-2017-5443: Out-of-bounds write during BinHex decoding

CVE-2017-5444: Buffer overflow while parsing application/http-index-format content

CVE-2017-5446: Out-of-bounds read when HTTP/2 DATA frames are sent with incorrect data

CVE-2017-5447: Out-of-bounds read during glyph processing

CVE-2017-5465: Out-of-bounds read in ConvolvePixel

CVE-2017-5448: Out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor

CVE-2017-5437: Vulnerabilities in Libevent library

CVE-2017-5454: Sandbox escape allowing file system read access through file picker

CVE-2017-5455: Sandbox escape through internal feed reader APIs

CVE-2017-5456: Sandbox escape allowing local file system access

CVE-2017-5469: Potential Buffer overflow in flex-generated code

CVE-2017-5445: Uninitialized values used while parsing application/http-index-format content

CVE-2017-5449: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation

CVE-2017-5450: Addressbar spoofing using javascript: URI on Firefox for Android

CVE-2017-5451: Addressbar spoofing with onblur event

CVE-2017-5462: DRBG flaw in NSS

CVE-2017-5463: Addressbar spoofing through reader view on Firefox for Android

CVE-2017-5467: Memory corruption when drawing Skia content

CVE-2017-5452: Addressbar spoofing during scrolling with editable content on Firefox for Android

CVE-2017-5453: HTML injection into RSS Reader feed preview page through TITLE element

CVE-2017-5458: Drag and drop of javascript: URLs can allow for self-XSS

CVE-2017-5468: Incorrect ownership model for Private Browsing information

CVE-2017-5430: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 53 and Firefox ESR 52.1

CVE-2017-5429: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 53, Firefox ESR 45.9, and Firefox ESR 52.1

From USN-3260-1:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar contents or other UI elements, escape the sandbox to read local files, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5429,CVE-2017-5430,CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5433,CVE-2017-5434,CVE-2017-5435,CVE-2017-5436,CVE-2017-5437, CVE-2017-5438,CVE-2017-5439,CVE-2017-5440,CVE-2017-5441,CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5443,CVE-2017-5444,CVE-2017-5445,CVE-2017-5446,CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5448,CVE-2017-5449,CVE-2017-5451,CVE-2017-5453,CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5455,CVE-2017-5456,CVE-2017-5458,CVE-2017-5459,CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5461,CVE-2017-5464,CVE-2017-5465,CVE-2017-5466,CVE-2017-5467, CVE-2017-5468,CVE-2017-5469)

A flaw was discovered in the DRBG number generation in NSS. If an attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be exploited to view sensitive information. (CVE-2017-5462)

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

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