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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2016.0012
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Mozilla Firefox
15 February 2016
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox ESR
Operating System: Android
Windows
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Provide Misleading Information -- Remote with User Interaction
Access Confidential Data -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2016-1949 CVE-2016-1523
Member content until: Wednesday, March 16 2016
OVERVIEW
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Mozilla Firefox ESR
prior to 38.6.1 and Firefox 44.0.2. [1-2]
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following information:
CVE-2016-1949: "Jason Pang of OneSignal reported that service
workers intercept responses to plugin network requests made through
the browser. Plugins which make security decisions based on the
content of network requests can have these decisions subverted if a
service worker forges responses to those requests. For example, a
forged crossdomain.xml could allow a malicious site to violate the
same-origin policy using the Flash plugin." [1]
CVE-2016-1523: "Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek reported that
a malicious Graphite "smart font" could circumvent the validation of
internal instruction parameters in the Graphite 2 library using
special CNTXT_ITEM instructions. This could result in arbitrary code
execution. This issue affected Graphite 2 version 1.2.4, which was
used in the Firefox ESR branch. To address this issue and other
security vulnerabilities recently disclosed by Cisco Talos affecting
this version of the library, Firefox ESR has been updated to version
1.3.5, the same one used in Firefox 44." [2]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends updating to the latest version. [1-2]
REFERENCES
[1] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-13
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-13/
[2] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-14
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-14/
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