USN-975-1 : firefox, firefox-3.0, firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerabilities

NASLDB: USN-975-1 : firefox, firefox-3.0, firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerabilities

General

ID: 49169
Name: USN-975-1 : firefox, firefox-3.0, firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerabilities

Summary: Checks dpkg output for updated package(s)

Credits: –

Classification

Risk: –

CVSS: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Base Vector: –
CVSS Temporal Vector: –

Port: 0
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Type: Local

Description

Several dangling pointer vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox.
An attacker could exploit this to crash the browser or possibly run
arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2760,
CVE-2010-2767, CVE-2010-3167)

Blake Kaplan and Michal Zalewski discovered several weaknesses in the
XPCSafeJSObjectWrapper (SJOW) security wrapper. If a user were
tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use
this to run arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges.
(CVE-2010-2762)

Matt Haggard discovered that Firefox did not honor same-origin policy
when processing the statusText property of an XMLHttpRequest object.
If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote
attacker could use this to gather information about servers on
internal private networks. (CVE-2010-2764)

Chris Rohlf discovered an integer overflow when Firefox processed the
HTML frameset element. If a user were tricked into viewing a
malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser
or possibly run arbitrary code as the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2010-2765)

Several issues were discovered in the browser engine. If a user were
tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use
this to crash the browser or possibly run arbitrary code as the user
invoking the program. (CVE-2010-2766, CVE-2010-3168)

David Huang and Collin Jackson discovered that the <object> tag could
override the charset of a framed HTML document in another origin. An
attacker could utilize this to perform cross-site scripting attacks.
(CVE-2010-2768)

Paul Stone discovered that with designMode enabled an HTML selection
containing JavaScript could be copied and pasted into a document and
have the JavaScript execute within the context of the site where the
code was dropped. An attacker could utilize this to perform
cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2010-2769)

A buffer overflow was discovered in Firefox when processing text
runs. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote
attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run
arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-3166)

Peter Van der Beken, Jason Oster, Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Jeff
Walden, Gary Kwong and Olli Pettay discovered several flaws in the
browser engine. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site,
a remote attacker could use this to crash the browser or possibly run
arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-3169)