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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2013.0038
A vulnerability has been fixed in the latest version of Mo
zilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
11 March 2013
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Operating System: Windows
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Android
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2013-0787
Member content until: Wednesday, April 10 2013
OVERVIEW
A vulnerability has been fixed in the latest versions of
Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
IMPACT
Mozilla provides the following details regarding this vulenrability:
CVE-2013-0787:
"VUPEN Security, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a
use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script is run by
the document.execCommand() function while internal editor operations
are occurring. This could allow for arbitrary code execution." [1]
MITIGATION
Users should update to the latest versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and
SeaMonkey.
REFERENCES
[1] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-29
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-29.html
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