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ELSA-2013-1476 -- Oracle firefox and xulrunner

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1500293Date: (C)2013-11-12   (M)2023-12-07
Class: PATCHFamily: unix




Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to terminate unexpectedly or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. It was found that the Firefox JavaScript engine incorrectly allocated memory for certain functions. An attacker could combine this flaw with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations files. An attacker could combine this flaw with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jesse Ruderman, Christoph Diehl, Dan Gohman, Byoungyoung Lee, Nils, and Abhishek Arya as the original reporters of these issues. For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 17.0.10 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum. All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 17.0.10 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Platform:
Oracle Linux 5
Product:
firefox
xulrunner
Reference:
ELSA-2013-1476
CVE-2013-5590
CVE-2013-5595
CVE-2013-5597
CVE-2013-5599
CVE-2013-5600
CVE-2013-5601
CVE-2013-5602
CVE-2013-5604
CVE    8
CVE-2013-5595
CVE-2013-5590
CVE-2013-5604
CVE-2013-5601
...
CPE    13
cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:23.0
cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:24.0
cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:21.0
cpe:/a:xulrunner:xulrunner
...

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