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Red Hat: Firefox Critical Update RHSA-2012:0710-01 CVE-2011-3101 CVE-2012-1937 CVE-2012-1938

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2012
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important upgrades for Firefox have been rolled out for Red Hat Enterprise. These modifications tackle several vulnerabilities to strengthen overall security.
Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

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 crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2011-3101, CVE-2012-1937, CVE-2012-1938, CVE-2012-1939, CVE-2012-1940, CVE-2012-1941, CVE-2012-1946, CVE-2012-1947)
Note: CVE-2011-3101 only affected users of certain NVIDIA display driverswith graphics cards that have hardware acceleration enabled.
It was found that the Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation in Firefox no longer blocked Firefox inline event handlers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to possibly bypass a web application's intended restrictions, if that application relied on CSP to protect against flaws such as cross-site scripting (XSS). (CVE-2012-1944)
If a web server hosted HTML files that are stored on a Microsoft Windows share, or a Samba share, loading such files with Firefox could result in Windows shortcut files (.lnk) in the same share also being loaded. An attacker could use this flaw to view the contents of local files and directories on the victim's system. This issue also affected users opening HTML files from Microsoft Windows shares, or Samba shares, that are mounted on their systems. (CVE-2012-1945)
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 10.0.5 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Ken Russell of Google as the original reporter of CVE-2011-3101; Igor Bukanov, Olli Pettay, Boris Zbarsky, and Jesse Ruderman as the original reporters of CVE-2012-1937; Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, and Brian Bondy as the original reporters of CVE-2012-1938; Christian Holler as the original reporter of CVE-2012-1939; security researcher Abhishek Arya of Google as the original reporter of CVE-2012-1940, CVE-2012-1941, and CVE-2012-1947; security researcher Arthur Gerkis as the original reporter of CVE-2012-1946; security researcher Adam Barth as the original reporter of CVE-2012-1944; and security researcher Paul Stone as the original reporter of CVE-2012-1945.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 10.0.5 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3101 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1937 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1938 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1939 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1940 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1941 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1944 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1945 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1946 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1947 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: firefox-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
x86_64: firefox-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-10.0.5-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.5-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
x86_64: xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.5-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: firefox-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-10.0.5-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
ia64: firefox-10.0.5-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm xulrunner-10.0.5-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.5-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:0710-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2012-06-05

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

827829 - CVE-2011-3101 CVE-2012-1937 CVE-2012-1938 CVE-2012-1939 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:13.0/ rv:10.0.5) (MFSA 2012-34)

827830 - CVE-2012-1944 Mozilla: Content Security Policy inline-script bypass (MFSA 2012-36)

827831 - CVE-2012-1945 Mozilla: Information disclosure though Windows file shares and shortcut files (MFSA 2012-37)

827832 - CVE-2012-1946 Mozilla: Use-after-free while replacing/inserting a node in a document (MFSA 2012-38)

827843 - CVE-2012-1940 CVE-2012-1941 CVE-2012-1947 Mozilla: Buffer overflow and use-after-free issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-40)

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