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-2013-1718, CVE-2013-1722, CVE-2013-1725, CVE-2013-1730,
CVE-2013-1732, CVE-2013-1735, CVE-2013-1736)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain DOM JavaScript objects.
An attacker could use this flaw to make JavaScript client or add-on code
make incorrect, security sensitive decisions. (CVE-2013-1737)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these
issues. Upstream acknowledges Andre Bargull, Scoobidiver, Bobby Holley,
Reuben Morais, Abhishek Arya, Ms2ger, Sachin Shinde, Aki Helin, Nils, and
Boris Zbarsky as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security
advisories for Firefox 17.0.9 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla
advisories in the References section of this erratum.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Firefox version 17.0.9 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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.4 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 ia64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.4 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.9 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.4 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.9 ppc
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 x86_64
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Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.1 x86_64
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Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.1 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 1009031 - CVE-2013-1718 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:17.0.9) (MFSA 2013-76)
- BZ - 1009032 - CVE-2013-1722 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Animation Manager during stylesheet cloning (MFSA 2013-79)
- BZ - 1009033 - CVE-2013-1725 Mozilla: Calling scope for new Javascript objects can lead to memory corruption (MFSA 2013-82)
- BZ - 1009036 - CVE-2013-1730 Mozilla: Compartment mismatch re-attaching XBL-backed nodes (MFSA 2013-88)
- BZ - 1009037 - CVE-2013-1732 Mozilla: Buffer overflow with multi-column, lists, and floats (MFSA 2013-89)
- BZ - 1009039 - CVE-2013-1735 CVE-2013-1736 Mozilla: Memory corruption involving scrolling (MFSA 2013-90)
- BZ - 1009041 - CVE-2013-1737 Mozilla: User-defined properties on DOM proxies get the wrong "this" object (MFSA 2013-91)
CVEs
References
Vulmon