USN-2602-1

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USN-2602-1

Summary: firefox vulnerabilities

Details: Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong, Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. 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-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709) Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG content with certain CSS properties 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-2015-2710) Alex Verstak discovered that <meta name="referrer"> is ignored in some circumstances. (CVE-2015-2711) Dougall Johnson discovered an out of bounds read and write in asm.js. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2712) Scott Bell discovered a use-afer-free during the processing of text when vertical text is enabled. 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-2015-2713) Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free during shutdown. 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-2015-2715) Ucha Gobejishvili discovered a buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML content. 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-2015-2716) A buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read were discovered when parsing metadata in MP4 files 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-2015-2717) Mark Hammond discovered that when a trusted page is hosted within an iframe in an untrusted page, the untrusted page can intercept webchannel responses meant for the trusted page in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to bypass origin restrictions. (CVE-2015-2718)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2602-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2708, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2709, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2710, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2711, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2712, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2713, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2715, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2716, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2717, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2718