The installed version of Firefox 3.6.x is potentially affected by the following security issues :
  - Multiple memory corruption issues. By tricking a user     into visiting a specially crafted page, these issues may     allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the     context of the affected application. (CVE-2012-0457,     CVE-2012-0461, CVE-2012-0463, CVE-2012-0464)

  - A security bypass vulnerability exists that can be     exploited by an attacker if the victim can be tricked     into setting a new home page by dragging a specially     crafted link to the 'home' button URL, which will set     the user's home page to a 'javascript:' URL.     (CVE-2012-0458) 

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to an     out-of-bounds read in SVG filters. (CVE-2012-0456)

  - A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists that can be     triggered by dragging and dropping 'javascript:' links     onto a frame. (CVE-2012-0455)

The installed version of Firefox 3.6.x is potentially affected by the following security issues :
  - Multiple memory corruption issues. By tricking a user     into visiting a specially crafted page, these issues may     allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the     context of the affected application. (CVE-2012-0457,     CVE-2012-0461, CVE-2012-0463, CVE-2012-0464)

  - A security bypass vulnerability that can be exploited by     an attacker if the victim can be tricked into setting a     new home page by dragging a specially crafted link to     the 'home' button URL, which will set the user's home     page to a 'javascript:' URL. (CVE-2012-0458) 

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to an     out of bounds read in SVG filters. (CVE-2012-0456)

  - A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists that can be     triggered by dragging and dropping 'javascript:' links     onto a frame. (CVE-2012-0455)

USN-1400-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Firefox 11 started using GSettings to access the system proxy settings. If there is a GSettings proxy settings schema, Firefox will consume it. The GSettings proxy settings schema that was shipped by default was unused by other applications and broke Firefox's ability to use system proxy settings.
This update removes the unused schema. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Soroush Dalili discovered that Firefox did not adequately protect against dropping JavaScript links onto a frame. A remote attacker could, through cross-site scripting (XSS), exploit this to modify the contents or steal confidential data. (CVE-2012-0455)

Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in Firefox's handling of SVG animations. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-0457)

Atte Kettunen discovered an out of bounds read vulnerability in Firefox's handling of SVG Filters. An attacker could potentially exploit this to make data from the user's memory accessible to the page content. (CVE-2012-0456)

Mike Brooks discovered that using carriage return line feed (CRLF) injection, one could introduce a new Content Security Policy (CSP) rule which allows for cross-site scripting (XSS) on sites with a separate header injection vulnerability. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.
(CVE-2012-0451)

Mariusz Mlynski discovered that the Home button accepted JavaScript links to set the browser Home page. An attacker could use this vulnerability to get the script URL loaded in the privileged about:sessionrestore context. (CVE-2012-0458)

Daniel Glazman discovered that the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation is vulnerable to crashing due to modification of a keyframe followed by access to the cssText of the keyframe. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-0459)

Matt Brubeck discovered that Firefox did not properly restrict access to the window.fullScreen object. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted web page, an attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to spoof the user interface. (CVE-2012-0460)

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Michael Bebenita, David Anderson, Jeff Walden, Vincenzo Iozzo, and Willem Pinckaers discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-0461, CVE-2012-0462, CVE-2012-0464).

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.

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of SeaMonkey :

  - CVE-2012-0455     Soroush Dalili discovered that a cross-site scripting     countermeasure related to JavaScript URLs could be     bypassed.

  - CVE-2012-0456     Atte Kettunen discovered an out of bounds read in the     SVG Filters, resulting in memory disclosure.

  - CVE-2012-0458     Mariusz Mlynski discovered that privileges could be     escalated through a JavaScript URL as the home page.

  - CVE-2012-0461     Bob Clary discovered memory corruption bugs, which may     lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  - CVE-2012-0467     Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Brian Hackett, Bobby     Holley, Gary Kwong, Hilary Hall, Honza Bambas, Jesse     Ruderman, Julian Seward, and Olli Pettay discovered     memory corruption bugs, which may lead to the execution     of arbitrary code.

  - CVE-2012-0470     Atte Kettunen discovered that a memory corruption bug in     gfxImageSurface may lead to the execution of arbitrary     code.

  - CVE-2012-0471     Anne van Kesteren discovered that incorrect multibyte     character encoding may lead to cross-site scripting.

  - CVE-2012-0477     Masato Kinugawa discovered that incorrect encoding of     Korean and Chinese character sets may lead to cross-site     scripting.

  - CVE-2012-0479     Jeroen van der Gun discovered a spoofing vulnerability     in the presentation of Atom and RSS feeds over HTTPS.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-0461, CVE-2012-0462, CVE-2012-0464)

Two flaws were found in the way Firefox parsed certain Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image files. A web page containing a malicious SVG image file could cause an information leak, or cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-0456, CVE-2012-0457)

A flaw could allow a malicious site to bypass intended restrictions, possibly leading to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack if a user were tricked into dropping a 'javascript:' link onto a frame.
(CVE-2012-0455)

It was found that the home page could be set to a 'javascript:' link.
If a user were tricked into setting such a home page by dragging a link to the home button, it could cause Firefox to repeatedly crash, eventually leading to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-0458)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox parsed certain web content containing 'cssText'. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2012-0459)

It was found that by using the DOM fullscreen API, untrusted content could bypass the mozRequestFullscreen security protections. A web page containing malicious web content could exploit this API flaw to cause user interface spoofing. (CVE-2012-0460)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled pages with multiple Content Security Policy (CSP) headers. This could lead to a cross-site scripting attack if used in conjunction with a website that has a header injection flaw. (CVE-2012-0451)

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 10.0.3 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  - When using the Traditional Chinese locale (zh-TW), a     segmentation fault sometimes occurred when closing     Firefox.

  - Inputting any text in the Web Console (Tools -> Web     Developer -> Web Console) caused Firefox to crash.

All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 10.0.3 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content.
Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-0461, CVE-2012-0462, CVE-2012-0464)

Two flaws were found in the way Thunderbird parsed certain Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image files. An HTML mail message containing a malicious SVG image file could cause an information leak, or cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-0456, CVE-2012-0457)

A flaw could allow malicious content to bypass intended restrictions, possibly leading to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack if a user were tricked into dropping a 'javascript:' link onto a frame.
(CVE-2012-0455)

It was found that the home page could be set to a 'javascript:' link.
If a user were tricked into setting such a home page by dragging a link to the home button, it could cause Firefox to repeatedly crash, eventually leading to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Firefox. A similar flaw was found and fixed in Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-0458)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird parsed certain, remote content containing 'cssText'. Malicious, remote content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-0459)

It was found that by using the DOM fullscreen API, untrusted content could bypass the mozRequestFullscreen security protections. Malicious content could exploit this API flaw to cause user interface spoofing.
(CVE-2012-0460)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled content with multiple Content Security Policy (CSP) headers. This could lead to a cross-site scripting attack if used in conjunction with a website that has a header injection flaw. (CVE-2012-0451)

Note: All issues except CVE-2012-0456 and CVE-2012-0457 cannot be exploited by a specially crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages. It could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 10.0.3 ESR, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - CRLF injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x     through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3,     Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x     before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 allows remote     web servers to bypass intended Content Security Policy     (CSP) restrictions and possibly conduct cross-site     scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted HTTP headers.
    (CVE-2012-0451)

  - Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0,     Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before     3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before     10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly     restrict drag-and-drop operations on javascript: URLs,     which allows user-assisted remote attackers to conduct     cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web     page, related to a 'DragAndDropJacking' issue.
    (CVE-2012-0455)

  - The SVG Filters implementation in Mozilla Firefox before     3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before     10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0,     Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before     2.8 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive     information from process memory via vectors that trigger     an out-of-bounds read. (CVE-2012-0456)

  - Use-after-free vulnerability in the     nsSMILTimeValueSpec::ConvertBetweenTimeContainer     function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x     through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3,     Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0,     Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before     2.8 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary     code via an SVG animation. (CVE-2012-0457)

  - Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0,     Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before     3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before     10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly     restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a     URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted     remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code     with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is     later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.
    (CVE-2012-0458)

  - The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in     Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x     before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird     ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code     via dynamic modification of a keyframe followed by     access to the cssText of the keyframe. (CVE-2012-0459)

  - Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x     before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird     ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not     properly restrict write access to the window.fullScreen     object, which allows remote attackers to spoof the user     interface via a crafted web page. (CVE-2012-0460)

  - Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser     engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through     10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before     3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before     10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 allow remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and     application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code     via unknown vectors. (CVE-2012-0461)

  - Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser     engine in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR     10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0,     Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before     2.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly     execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
    (CVE-2012-0462)

  - Use-after-free vulnerability in the browser engine in     Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0,     Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before     3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before     10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 allows remote attackers     to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an empty     argument to the array.join function in conjunction with     the triggering of garbage collection. (CVE-2012-0464)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
58349	Firefox 3.6.x < 3.6.28 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	3/15/2012	6/23/2026	high
58354	Firefox 3.6.x < 3.6.28 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	3/15/2012	3/3/2026	high
58807	Ubuntu 11.04 : gsettings-desktop-schemas regression (USN-1400-5)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/20/2012	9/19/2019	high
58855	Debian DSA-2458-2 : iceape - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	4/25/2012	1/11/2021	critical
61282	Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120314)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	high
61283	Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120314)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	high
80606	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : firefox (multiple_vulnerabilities_in_firefox_web)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	1/19/2015	1/14/2021	high

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