Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-930-5
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
USN-930-4 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner on Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. This update provides updated packages for use with Firefox 3.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.2.
Original advisory details:
If was discovered that Firefox could be made to access freed memory. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-1121)
Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1200, CVE-2010-1201, CVE-2010-1202, CVE-2010-1203)
A flaw was discovered in the way plugin instances interacted. An attacker could potentially exploit this and use one plugin to access freed memory from a second plugin to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1198)
An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, an attacker could overflow a buffer and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1196)
Martin Barbella discovered an integer overflow in an XSLT node sorting routine. An attacker could exploit this to overflow a buffer and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-1199)
Michal Zalewski discovered that the focus behavior of Firefox could be subverted. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to capture keystrokes. (CVE-2010-1125)
Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the 'Content-Disposition: attachment' HTTP header was ignored when 'Content-Type: multipart' was also present.
Under certain circumstances, this could potentially lead to cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2010-1197)
Amit Klein discovered that Firefox did not seed its random number generator often enough. An attacker could exploit this to identify and track users across different web sites. (CVE-2008-5913)
Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, ...
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Affected
ant, apturl, Epiphany, gluezilla, gnome-python-extras, liferea, mozvoikko, OpenJDK, packagekit, ubufox, webfav, yelp update on Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10
Severity
Classification
-
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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