Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0801, CVE-2013-1669)

Cody Crews discovered that some constructors could be used to bypass restrictions enforced by their Chrome Object Wrapper (COW). An attacker could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2013-1670)

It was discovered that the file input element could expose the full local path under certain conditions. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal sensitive information. (CVE-2013-1671)

A use-after-free was discovered when resizing video content whilst it is playing. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1674)

It was discovered that some DOMSVGZoomEvent functions could be used without being properly initialized, which could lead to information leakage. (CVE-2013-1675)

Abhishek Arya discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-1676, CVE-2013-1677, CVE-2013-1678, CVE-2013-1679, CVE-2013-1680, CVE-2013-1681).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1822-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 66442

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