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Red Hat: 2013:0271-01 Critical: Firefox Security Flaws Details

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2013
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Immediate notification for Chrome on CentOS tackles severe vulnerabilities. Safeguard your device by applying the most recent updates.
Updated firefox packages that fix several 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-2013-0775, CVE-2013-0780, CVE-2013-0782, CVE-2013-0783)
It was found that, after canceling a proxy server's authentication prompt, the address bar continued to show the requested site's address. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct phishing attacks by tricking a user into believing they are viewing a trusted site. (CVE-2013-0776)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Nils, Abhishek Arya, Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew, Wayne Mery, and Michal Zalewski as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 17.0.3 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.
Note that due to a Kerberos credentials change, the following configuration steps may be required when using Firefox 17.0.3 ESR with the Enterprise Identity Management (IPA) web interface:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/294303
Important: Firefox 17 is not completely backwards-compatible with all Mozilla add-ons and Firefox plug-ins that worked with Firefox 10.0. Firefox 17 checks compatibility on first-launch, and, depending on the individual configuration and the installed add-ons and plug-ins, may disable said Add-ons and plug-ins, or attempt to check for updates and upgrade them. Add-ons and plug-ins may have to be manually updated.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 17.0.3 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-2013-0775 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0776 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0780 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0782 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0783 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ https://access.redhat.com/solutions/294303

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: devhelp-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm devhelp-debuginfo-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm yelp-2.16.0-30.el5_9.i386.rpm yelp-debuginfo-2.16.0-30.el5_9.i386.rpm
x86_64: devhelp-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm devhelp-0.12-23.el5_9.x86_64.rpm devhelp-debuginfo-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm devhelp-debuginfo-0.12-23.el5_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-17.0.3-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm firefox-debuginfo-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm firefox-debuginfo-17.0.3-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-17.0.3-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-17.0.3-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm yelp-2.16.0-30.el5_9.x86_64.rpm yelp-debuginfo-2.16.0-30.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: devhelp-debuginfo-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm devhelp-devel-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-debuginfo-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm xulrunner-devel-17.0.3-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
x86_64: devhelp-debuginfo-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm devhelp-debuginfo-0.12-23.el5_9.x86_64.rpm devhelp-devel-0.12-23.el5_9.i386.rpm devhelp-devel-0.12-23.el5_9.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0271-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2013-02-19

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now availablefor 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

911836 - CVE-2013-0783 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:17.0.3) (MFSA 2013-21)

911843 - CVE-2013-0775 Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsImageLoadingContent (MFSA 2013-26)

911844 - CVE-2013-0776 Mozilla: Phishing on HTTPS connection through malicious proxy (MFSA 2013-27)

911865 - CVE-2013-0780 CVE-2013-0782 Mozilla: Use-after-free, out of bounds read, and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2013-28)

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