Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180515)

This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.8.0 ESR. Security Fixes : - Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8 CVE-2018-5150 - Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia CVE-2018-5183 - Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths CVE-2018-5154 -...

Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension

A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data. This vulnerability requires the use of a malicious or vulnerable legacy extension in order to occur. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR 52.8, Thunderbird 52.8, and...

Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion (MFSA 2018-07)

An integer overflow can occur during conversion of text to some Unicode character sets due to an unchecked length parameter. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 52.7 and Thunderbird 52.7...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-1176

Buffer overflow in the fribidiutf8tounicode function in PyFriBidi before 0.11.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a 4-byte utf-8 sequence...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Mozilla Thunderbird is the next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project. Description The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2...

GLSA-200503-32 : Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-32 Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Thunderbird: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete...

security flaw

Heap-based buffer overflow in the UTF8ToNewUnicode function for Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via invalid sequences in a UTF8 encoded string that result in a zero length value...