MGASA-2015-0477

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MGASA-2015-0477

Summary: Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Details: Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple memory safety issues in Firefox were discovered. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2015-7201). Ronald Crane discovered a buffer overflow through code inspection. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2015-7205). Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free in WebRTC when closing channels in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2015-7210). Abhishek Arya discovered an integer overflow when allocating large textures. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2015-7212). Ronald Crane dicovered an integer overflow when processing MP4 format video in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2015-7213). Tsubasa Iinuma discovered a way to bypass same-origin restrictions using data: and view-source: URLs. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information and read local files (CVE-2015-7214). Gerald Squelart discovered an integer underflow in the libstagefright library when parsing MP4 format video in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox (CVE-2015-7222).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0477.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17337, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-134/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-138/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-139/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-145/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-146/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-147/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-149/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2833-1/