This update brings Mozilla Firefox to version 3.6.12, fixing various bugs and security issues.

The following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-64: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. References

Paul Nickerson, Jesse Ruderman, Olli Pettay, Igor Bukanov and Josh Soref reported memory safety problems that affected Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5.

  - Memory safety bugs - Firefox 3.6, Firefox 3.5

  - CVE-2010-3176

Gary Kwong, Martijn Wargers and Siddharth Agarwal reported memory safety problems that affected Firefox 3.6 only.

  - Memory safety bugs - Firefox 3.6

  - CVE-2010-3175

MFSA 2010-65 / CVE-2010-3179: Security researcher Alexander Miller reported that passing an excessively long string to document.write could cause text rendering routines to end up in an inconsistent state with sections of stack memory being overwritten with the string data.
An attacker could use this flaw to crash a victim's browser and potentially run arbitrary code on their computer.

MFSA 2010-66 / CVE-2010-3180: Security researcher Sergey Glazunov reported that it was possible to access the locationbar property of a window object after it had been closed. Since the closed window's memory could have been subsequently reused by the system it was possible that an attempt to access the locationbar property could result in the execution of attacker-controlled memory.

MFSA 2010-67 / CVE-2010-3183: Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that when window.__lookupGetter__ is called with no arguments the code assumes the top JavaScript stack value is a property name. Since there were no arguments passed into the function, the top value could represent uninitialized memory or a pointer to a previously freed JavaScript object. Under such circumstances the value is passed to another subroutine which calls through the dangling pointer, potentially executing attacker-controlled memory.

MFSA 2010-68 / CVE-2010-3177: Google security researcher Robert Swiecki reported that functions used by the Gopher parser to convert text to HTML tags could be exploited to turn text into executable JavaScript. If an attacker could create a file or directory on a Gopher server with the encoded script as part of its name the script would then run in a victim's browser within the context of the site.

MFSA 2010-69 / CVE-2010-3178: Security researcher Eduardo Vela Nava reported that if a web page opened a new window and used a javascript:
URL to make a modal call, such as alert(), then subsequently navigated the page to a different domain, once the modal call returned the opener of the window could get access to objects in the navigated window. This is a violation of the same-origin policy and could be used by an attacker to steal information from another website.

MFSA 2010-70 / CVE-2010-3170: Security researcher Richard Moore reported that when an SSL certificate was created with a common name containing a wildcard followed by a partial IP address a valid SSL connection could be established with a server whose IP address matched the wildcard range by browsing directly to the IP address. It is extremely unlikely that such a certificate would be issued by a Certificate Authority.

MFSA 2010-71 / CVE-2010-3182: Dmitri Gribenko reported that the script used to launch Mozilla applications on Linux was effectively including the current working directory in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. If an attacker was able to place into the current working directory a malicious shared library with the same name as a library that the bootstrapping script depends on the attacker could have their library loaded instead of the legitimate library.

MFSA 2010-73 / CVE-2010-3765: Morten Kr&aring;kvik of Telenor SOC reported an exploit targeting particular versions of Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP that Telenor found while investigating an intrusion attempt on a customer network. The underlying vulnerability, however, was present on both the Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 development branches and affected all supported platforms.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201301-01 (Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox,       Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, NSS, GNU IceCat, and XULRunner. 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. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able       to perform Man-in-the-Middle attacks, obtain sensitive information,       bypass restrictions and protection mechanisms, force file downloads,       conduct XML injection attacks, conduct XSS attacks, bypass the Same       Origin Policy, spoof URL&rsquo;s for phishing attacks, trigger a vertical       scroll, spoof the location bar, spoof an SSL indicator, modify the       browser&rsquo;s font, conduct clickjacking attacks, or have other unspecified       impact.
    A local attacker could gain escalated privileges, obtain sensitive       information, or replace an arbitrary downloaded file.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

a. ESX third-party update for Service Console openssl RPM

   The Service Console openssl RPM is updated to    openssl-0.9.8e.12.el5_5.7 resolving two security issues.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2008-7270 and CVE-2010-4180 to these    issues.
   b. ESX third-party update for Service Console libuser RPM     The Service Console libuser RPM is updated to version    0.54.7-2.1.el5_5.2 to resolve a security issue.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2011-0002 to this issue.
  c. ESX third-party update for Service Console nss and nspr RPMs     The Service Console Network Security Services (NSS) and Netscape    Portable Runtime (NSPR) libraries are updated to nspr-4.8.6-1    and nss-3.12.8-4 resolving multiple security issues.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the names CVE-2010-3170 and CVE-2010-3173 to these    issues.
  d. vCenter Server and ESX, Oracle (Sun) JRE update 1.6.0_24

   Oracle (Sun) JRE is updated to version 1.6.0_24, which addresses    multiple security issues that existed in earlier releases of    Oracle (Sun) JRE.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    JRE 1.6.0_24: CVE-2010-4422, CVE-2010-4447, CVE-2010-4448,    CVE-2010-4450, CVE-2010-4451, CVE-2010-4452, CVE-2010-4454,    CVE-2010-4462, CVE-2010-4463, CVE-2010-4465, CVE-2010-4466,    CVE-2010-4467, CVE-2010-4468, CVE-2010-4469, CVE-2010-4470,    CVE-2010-4471, CVE-2010-4472, CVE-2010-4473, CVE-2010-4474,    CVE-2010-4475 and CVE-2010-4476.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    JRE 1.6.0_22: CVE-2010-1321, CVE-2010-3541, CVE-2010-3548,    CVE-2010-3549, CVE-2010-3550, CVE-2010-3551, CVE-2010-3552,    CVE-2010-3553, CVE-2010-3554, CVE-2010-3555, CVE-2010-3556,    CVE-2010-3557, CVE-2010-3558, CVE-2010-3559, CVE-2010-3560,    CVE-2010-3561, CVE-2010-3562, CVE-2010-3563, CVE-2010-3565,    CVE-2010-3566, CVE-2010-3567, CVE-2010-3568, CVE-2010-3569,    CVE-2010-3570, CVE-2010-3571, CVE-2010-3572, CVE-2010-3573 and    CVE-2010-3574.
  e. vCenter Update Manager Oracle (Sun) JRE update 1.5.0_30

   Oracle (Sun) JRE is updated to version 1.5.0_30, which addresses    multiple security issues that existed in earlier releases of    Oracle (Sun) JRE.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    Oracle (Sun) JRE 1.5.0_30: CVE-2011-0862, CVE-2011-0873,    CVE-2011-0815, CVE-2011-0864, CVE-2011-0802, CVE-2011-0814,    CVE-2011-0871, CVE-2011-0867 and CVE-2011-0865.

   The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the following names to the security issues fixed in    Oracle (Sun) JRE 1.5.0_28: CVE-2010-4447, CVE-2010-4448,    CVE-2010-4450, CVE-2010-4454, CVE-2010-4462, CVE-2010-4465,    CVE-2010-4466, CVE-2010-4468, CVE-2010-4469, CVE-2010-4473,    CVE-2010-4475, CVE-2010-4476.

f. Integer overflow in VMware third-party component sfcb

   This release resolves an integer overflow issue present in the    third-party library SFCB when the httpMaxContentLength has been    changed from its default value to 0 in in /etc/sfcb/sfcb.cfg.
   The integer overflow could allow remote attackers to cause a    denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly execute    arbitrary code via a large integer in the Content-Length HTTP    header.
     The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)    has assigned the name CVE-2010-2054 to this issue.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
75648	openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-3422)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	10/6/2025	critical
63402	GLSA-201301-01 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities (BEAST)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	1/8/2013	10/6/2025	critical
56665	VMSA-2011-0013 : VMware third-party component updates for VMware vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, ESXi and ESX	Nessus	VMware ESX Local Security Checks	10/28/2011	1/6/2021	critical

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