GLSA 201309-23: Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity:high
Title:Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:09/27/2013
Bugs: #450940, #458390, #460818, #464226, #469868, #474758, #479968, #485258
ID:201309-23

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, some of which may allow a remote user to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird an open-source email client, both from the Mozilla Project. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as the ‘Mozilla Application Suite’.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
mail-client/thunderbird < 17.0.9 >= 17.0.9 All supported architectures
www-client/firefox < 17.0.9 >= 17.0.9 All supported architectures
www-client/seamonkey < 2.21 >= 2.21 All supported architectures
mail-client/thunderbird-bin < 17.0.9 >= 17.0.9 All supported architectures
www-client/firefox-bin < 17.0.9 >= 17.0.9 All supported architectures
www-client/seamonkey-bin < 2.21 >= 2.21 All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page or email, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition. Further, a remote attacker could conduct XSS attacks, spoof URLs, bypass address space layout randomization, conduct clickjacking attacks, obtain potentially sensitive information, bypass access restrictions, modify the local filesystem, or conduct other unspecified attacks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-17.0.9"
    

All users of the Mozilla Firefox binary package should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-bin-17.0.9"

All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-17.0.9"

All users of the Mozilla Thunderbird binary package should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-17.0.9"

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-2.21"

All users of the Mozilla SeaMonkey binary package should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-bin-2.21"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-23.xml

Concerns?

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License

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