CVE-2012-4191

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1611-1

Posted Oct 12, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1611-1 - Henrik Skupin, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Soroush Dalili and others discovered several memory corruption flaws in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, an attacker could exploit these to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the context of another website or arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. CVE-2012-4191) David Bloom and Jordi Chancel discovered that Thunderbird did not always properly handle the <select> element. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, a remote attacker could exploit this to conduct URL spoofing and clickjacking attacks. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, arbitrary, spoof, javascript

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2012-4191, CVE-2012-3984, CVE-2012-3985, CVE-2012-3986, CVE-2012-3991, CVE-2012-3992, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188, CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3983, CVE-2012-3984, CVE-2012-3985, CVE-2012-3986, CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3989, CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3991, CVE-2012-3992, CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-3994, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180

SHA-256 | ac3e5de9ebdb73ec00e147e7680d9376d270bd2da91832b181c8f7c595d6f432

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1608-1

Posted Oct 12, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1608-1 - It was discovered that the browser engine used in Firefox contained a memory corruption flaw. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page, a remote attacker could cause Firefox to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. It was discovered that Firefox allowed improper access to the Location object. An attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, web, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2012-4191, CVE-2012-4192, CVE-2012-4191, CVE-2012-4192

SHA-256 | b3171a505c67b1392922829ab39b752d7cd1456e5f0239477cb2728a9ae678c2

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