Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

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                         AUSCERT Security Bulletin

                               ASB-2012.0148
        New versions of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey
                       fix multiple vulnerabilities.
                              29 October 2012

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              Firefox
                      Thunderbird
                      SeaMonkey
Operating System:     Windows
                      UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                      Mobile Device
Impact/Access:        Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
                      Access Privileged Data          -- Remote with User Interaction
                      Cross-site Scripting            -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution:           Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:            CVE-2012-4196 CVE-2012-4195 CVE-2012-4194
Member content until: Wednesday, November 28 2012

OVERVIEW

        Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in Mozilla Firefox,
        Thunderbird and in SeaMonkey. [1]


IMPACT

        The vendor has provided the following details about the vulnerabilities:
        
        "Note: Thunderbird is only affected by window.location issues through 
        RSS feeds and extensions that load web content."
        
        CVE-2012-4194 "Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that the 
        true value of window.location could be shadowed by user content through 
        the use of the valueOf method, which can be combined with some plugins 
        to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on users." 
        MFSA 2012-90 [2]
        
        CVE-2012-4195 "Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 discovered 
        that the CheckURL function in window.location can be forced to return 
        the wrong calling document and principal, allowing a cross-site 
        scripting (XSS) attack. There is also the possibility of gaining 
        arbitrary code execution if the attacker can take advantage of an 
        add-on that interacts with the page content."  MFSA 2012-90 [2]
        
        CVE-2012-4196 "Security researcher Antoine Delignat-Lavaud of the 
        PROSECCO research team at INRIA Paris reported the ability to use 
        property injection by prototype to bypass security wrapper protections 
        on the Location object, allowing the cross-origin reading of the 
        Location object." MFSA 2012-90 [2]


MITIGATION

        Users of the affected versions should upgrade to current versions:
        - Firefox: 16.0.2 or Firefox ESR 10.0.10
        - Thunderbird: 16.0.2 or Thunderbird ESR 10.0.10
        - SeaMonkey: 2.13.2


REFERENCES

        [1] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories
            https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/

        [2] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-90
            http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-90.html

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