[General] [Fwd: [USN-398-1] Firefox vulnerabilities]
Abdulmajeed Al-Sabah
abdulmajeed.alsabah at gmail.com
Sun Jan 7 14:04:18 +03 2007
Salam Alekum,
I received the following from ACM technews, it is interesting and maybe
alarming.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11430?ref=rss
Abdulmajeed Al-Sabah
On 1/5/07, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
>
> FYI&A
>
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [USN-398-1] Firefox
> vulnerabilities Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 18:41:39 -0800 From: Kees Cook
> <kees at ubuntu.com> <kees at ubuntu.com> Organization: Ubuntu To:
> ubuntu-security-announce at lists.ubuntu.com CC: bugtraq at securityfocus.com,
> full-disclosure at lists.grok.org.uk
>
> ===========================================================
> Ubuntu Security Notice USN-398-1 January 02, 2007
> firefox vulnerabilities
> CVE-2006-6497, CVE-2006-6498, CVE-2006-6499, CVE-2006-6501,
> CVE-2006-6502, CVE-2006-6503, CVE-2006-6504, CVE-2006-6506,
> CVE-2006-6507
> ===========================================================
>
> A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
>
> Ubuntu 6.10
>
> This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
> Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
>
> The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
> following package versions:
>
> Ubuntu 6.10:
> firefox 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10
> firefox-dev 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10
> libnspr-dev 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10
> libnspr4 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10
> libnss-dev 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10
> libnss3 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10
>
>
> After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox to effect
> the necessary changes.
>
> Details follow:
>
> Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to execute
> arbitrary code with user privileges by tricking the user into opening
> a malicious web page containing JavaScript or SVG. (CVE-2006-6497,
> CVE-2006-6498, CVE-2006-6499, CVE-2006-6501, CVE-2006-6502,
> CVE-2006-6504)
>
> Various flaws have been reported that allow an attacker to bypass
> Firefox's internal XSS protections by tricking the user into opening a
> malicious web page containing JavaScript. (CVE-2006-6503,
> CVE-2006-6507)
>
> Jared Breland discovered that the "Feed Preview" feature could leak
> referrer information to remote servers. (CVE-2006-6506)
>
>
> Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.10:
>
> Source archives:
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10.diff.gz
> Size/MD5: 322554 79c04227229a107f0c9d45049605bd48
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10.dsc
> Size/MD5: 1218 6ce84b9960bdbb97c9ec6c3705653eae
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> Size/MD5: 46670638 1cb13be9a35205af63fe70eeff14eb0e
>
> Architecture independent packages:
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox/firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb
> Size/MD5: 236456 9ed7043d22624085cffc10dc7cde8f26
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox/mozilla-firefox-dev_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb
> Size/MD5: 55270 2f8fde2f2488af7750e65e886493cd13
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb
> Size/MD5: 55362 eb1b5c963f64a784e053bdeee6537481
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb
> Size/MD5: 55378 dd6516fe8c1798d617bcf95b4fbd21c4
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/firefox/mozilla-firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb
> Size/MD5: 56176 eae029799af7b101a55a9bfdffc88330
>
> amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 50310432 263fa952660d303d4320ac519836a1fb
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dev_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 3119132 75d94b87d53efb786ffdf56ff6d6b075
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 89652 913420b9f378f322c1ca1b02037f2677
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 10387770 78104d3965f2bfbda5575574d9f755ba
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 225036 ea87d34202b6d3223dbac099cf51c8df
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr4_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 167466 55bbefb531652d568f02438aeed10f1d
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 250348 1bbc07d9af10768ac6656d927000abcd
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss3_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_amd64.deb
> Size/MD5: 861350 3fc1cbb4e1eb02995567cdec7b660bd2
>
> i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 49457428 a30d035ca9fd1819091c1c6b48d325b1
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dev_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 3109488 e86991da3947ee093b840abd83cf07b2
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 83386 77793d13bf5a26f0c43962ac5fbd186c
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 9207840 8dcf11221cfef75bf7f51422dcf60dd7
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 225046 90012c5f90396f6a5db7705b243e2521
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr4_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 156952 80817ef1fbd45ddfbdfdf75279275c34
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 250336 655f2f4a30dae71ec29bf96cfb7f0229
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss3_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_i386.deb
> Size/MD5: 785180 131a2623fa95997b99085884204fd89a
>
> powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 51980774 4865d18b50b3a10dfd1b228e11ac0435
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dev_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 3115886 c6f8efcab8edfd7b83453ee041a24612
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 85272 b66da0f160a453b1f3ee18f5b1722e8d
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 10056020 9102c8484c7c71186fd0b970a610e7e4
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 225038 4f83154583b4a058a123a3a8586ab0f2
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr4_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 166288 6190cda57dbebe29c65c1ca97daba292
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 250334 b3f846f1dafbf1a990ab27df8258b9e1
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss3_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_powerpc.deb
> Size/MD5: 860068 d0f2e68e9d1ca8be8d9914e6fcdf1bff
>
> sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
>
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 49511534 d0e1bad8c05a69231dfee2db6b34b990
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dev_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 3106194 1adc42b08102dca85285244139d312da
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 83086 ef47b587d79afdce14ec47b2e13ce89c
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 9485274 13146d26d590e4981281cf21957cfb61
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 225036 b72f082c255cd9510435cd0c0912a5bc
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnspr4_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 155116 9d629deae12ea27812081b13bb0216ba
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss-dev_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 250332 c3e90b969d3c3de2fe47c4942f8dc96f
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/libnss3_1.firefox2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10_sparc.deb
> Size/MD5: 766060 a32f928bcb9a7cd2d601b2aafbec6bef
>
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