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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2372-1

Posted Oct 14, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2372-1 - Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Carsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and Jeff Walden 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. Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during CSS manipulation. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575, CVE-2014-1576, CVE-2014-1577, CVE-2014-1578, CVE-2014-1580, CVE-2014-1581, CVE-2014-1582, CVE-2014-1583, CVE-2014-1584, CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586

SHA-256 | 08a723b0a299c9014e713edd4a285bd0be2b7aa5c1ccbb8d993433caf2e3dc41

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