Issued:

2009-12-16

Updated:

2009-12-16

RHSA-2009:1674 - Critical: firefox security update

Synopsis

Critical: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Description

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-2009-3979, CVE-2009-3981, CVE-2009-3986)

A flaw was found in the Firefox NT Lan Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol implementation. If an attacker could trick a local user that has NTLM credentials into visiting a specially-crafted web page, they could send arbitrary requests, authenticated with the user's NTLM credentials, to other applications on the user's system. (CVE-2009-3983)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed the SSL location bar indicator. An attacker could create an unencrypted web page that appears to be encrypted, possibly tricking the user into believing they are visiting a secure page. (CVE-2009-3984)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed blank pages after a user navigates to an invalid address. If a user visits an attacker-controlled web page that results in a blank page, the attacker could inject content into that blank page, possibly tricking the user into believing they are viewing a legitimate page. (CVE-2009-3985)

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.0.16. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this errata.

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.0.16, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.i386.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.s390.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.ppc.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.s390.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.i386.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.s390x.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.i386.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.src.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.src.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.src.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ppc.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ppc.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-1.el5_4.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.16-2.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-3.0.16-4.el4.s390.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 546694
• This content is not included.BZ - 546713
• This content is not included.BZ - 546720
• This content is not included.BZ - 546722
• This content is not included.BZ - 546724
• This content is not included.BZ - 546726

CVEs

• CVE-2009-3984
• CVE-2009-3983
• CVE-2009-3979
• CVE-2009-3986
• CVE-2009-3985
• CVE-2009-3981

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• Content from www.mozilla.org is not included.Content from www.mozilla.org is not included.http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.16

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.