Issued:

2014-04-29

Updated:

2014-04-29

RHSA-2014:0448 - Critical: firefox security update

Synopsis

Critical: firefox security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

An updated firefox package that fixes several security issues is 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.

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-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1524, CVE-2014-1529, CVE-2014-1531)

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Firefox resolved hosts in certain circumstances. An attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2014-1532)

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way Firefox decoded JPEG images. Loading a web page containing a specially crafted JPEG image could cause Firefox to crash. (CVE-2014-1523)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled browser navigations through history. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause the address bar of the browser to display a web page name while loading content from an entirely different web page, which could allow for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2014-1530)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Bobby Holley, Carsten Book, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Nathan Froyd, Christian Holler, Abhishek Arya, Mariusz Mlynski, moz_bug_r_a4, Nils, Tyson Smith, and Jesse Schwartzentrube as the original reporters of these issues.

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 24.5.0 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.

All Firefox users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Firefox version 24.5.0 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• firefox-24.5.0-1.el5_10.ia64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el6_5.src.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el6_5.ppc.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.s390x.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el5_10.s390.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el6_5.s390x.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.ppc.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.s390x.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.s390.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el5_10.i386.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.ia64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.s390.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el6_5.s390.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.ppc.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el5_10.src.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.i386.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el5_10.s390x.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el6_5.ppc64.rpm
• firefox-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
• firefox-24.5.0-1.el5_10.ppc.rpm

Fixes

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• This content is not included.BZ - 1092657
• This content is not included.BZ - 1092660
• This content is not included.BZ - 1092663
• This content is not included.BZ - 1092664
• This content is not included.BZ - 1092666
• This content is not included.BZ - 1092668
• This content is not included.BZ - 1092670

CVEs

• CVE-2014-1518
• CVE-2014-1523
• CVE-2014-1524
• CVE-2014-1532
• CVE-2014-1531
• CVE-2014-1530
• CVE-2014-1529

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.https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html#firefox24.5

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.