Issued:

2013-01-08

Updated:

2013-01-08

RHSA-2013:0144 - 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 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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-2013-0744, CVE-2013-0746, CVE-2013-0750, CVE-2013-0753, CVE-2013-0754, CVE-2013-0762, CVE-2013-0766, CVE-2013-0767, CVE-2013-0769)

A flaw was found in the way Chrome Object Wrappers were implemented. Malicious content could be used to cause Firefox to execute arbitrary code via plug-ins installed in Firefox. (CVE-2013-0758)

A flaw in the way Firefox displayed URL values in the address bar could allow a malicious site or user to perform a phishing attack. (CVE-2013-0759)

An information disclosure flaw was found in the way certain JavaScript functions were implemented in Firefox. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and other security restrictions. (CVE-2013-0748)

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 10.0.12 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 Atte Kettunen, Boris Zbarsky, pa_kt, regenrecht, Abhishek Arya, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, Chiaki Ishikawa, Mariusz Mlynski, Masato Kinugawa, and Jesse Ruderman as the original reporters of these issues.

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 10.0.12 ESR, 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 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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.src.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc64.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.src.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc64.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.ppc.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.src.rpm
• xulrunner-devel-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.src.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• xulrunner-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el5_9.ia64.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390.rpm
• xulrunner-debuginfo-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390.rpm
• firefox-10.0.12-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm

Fixes

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• This content is not included.BZ - 891825
• This content is not included.BZ - 892142
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• This content is not included.BZ - 892150

CVEs

• CVE-2013-0762
• CVE-2013-0767
• CVE-2013-0759
• CVE-2013-0758
• CVE-2013-0748
• CVE-2013-0746
• CVE-2013-0754
• CVE-2013-0744
• CVE-2013-0750
• CVE-2013-0753
• CVE-2013-0769
• CVE-2013-0766

References

• https://access.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/firefoxESR.html

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.