Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

Mozilla: Local Java applets may read contents of local file system (MFSA 2013-75)

Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly restrict local-filesystem access by Java applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging...

CVE-2013-1717

Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly restrict local-filesystem access by Java applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging...

Code injection

Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly restrict local-filesystem access by Java applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging...

CVE-2013-1717

CVE-2013-1717: Local-filesystem access via Java applets not properly restricted in Mozilla Firefox (before 23.0; ESR 17.x before 17.0.8), SeaMonkey (before 2.20), and Thunderbird (before 17.0.8). This allows user‑assisted reading of arbitrary files through downloads to fixed/predictable paths. Co...

CVE-2013-1717

Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly restrict local-filesystem access by Java applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging...

CVE-2013-1717: Undefined Security Weakness

Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly restrict local-filesystem access by Java applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1924-1)

Jeff Gilbert, Henrik Skupin, Ben Turner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Jan Varga and Jesse Ruderman discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If the user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : ubufox, unity-firefox-extension update (USN-1924-2)

USN-1924-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubufox and Unity Firefox Extension. Jeff Gilbert, Henrik Skupin, Ben Turner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Jan Varga and Jesse Ruderman discovered multiple memory safety issues in...

USN-1924-2: Ubufox and Unity Firefox Extension update

USN-1924-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubufox and Unity Firefox Extension. Original advisory details: Jeff Gilbert, Henrik Skupin, Ben Turner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Jan Varga and Jesse Ruderman discovered multiple...

USN-1924-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Jeff Gilbert, Henrik Skupin, Ben Turner, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Jan Varga and Jesse Ruderman discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If the user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of...

Local Java applets may read contents of local file system — Mozilla

Security researcher Georgi Guninski reported an issue with Java applets where in some circumstances the applet could access files on the local system when loaded using the a file:/// URI and violate file origin policy due to interaction with the codebase parameter. This affects applets running on...

CVE-2013-1717

Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly restrict local-filesystem access by Java applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging...

SIM Card Vulnerability Could Affect Millions of Cell Phones

As many as 750 million mobile phones could be vulnerable to an encryption flaw on certain types of SIM cards, a German cryptographer and researcher warned over the weekend. Karsten Nohl, the founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin, unveiled preliminary research on his blog behind the flaw in...

Java Reflection API Vulnerability Exploited

No Java component has had a bigger bull’s eye on its back this year than the Java Reflection API. Bug hunters and hackers alike have found a number of zero-days related to the Reflection API, most of which enable the remote execution of code outside the Java sandbox that’s supposed to prevent suc...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : icedtea-web (SAT Patch Number 7981)

This update to IcedTea-Web 1.4 provides the following fixes and enhancements : - Security updates - RH916774: Class-loader incorrectly shared for applets with same relative-path. CVE-2013-1926 - RH884705: fixed gifar vulnerabilit. CVE-2013-1927 - RH840592: Potential read from an uninitialized...

USN-1907-2: IcedTea Web update

USN-1907-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 7. Due to upstream changes, IcedTea Web needed an update to work with the new OpenJDK 7. Original advisory details: Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploi...

Oracle Java Serviceability Subcomponent ProviderSkeleton Class Vulnerability

Added: 07/11/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-2460 BID: 60635 OSVDB: 94346 Background Java is a programming language that compiles programs to bytecode, which is then executed inside a Java Virtual Machine. This is optimal for applications that must run on various hardware platforms, such as web applets. Probl...

Oracle Java Serviceability Subcomponent ProviderSkeleton Class Vulnerability

Added: 07/11/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-2460 BID: 60635 OSVDB: 94346 Background Java is a programming language that compiles programs to bytecode, which is then executed inside a Java Virtual Machine. This is optimal for applications that must run on various hardware platforms, such as web applets. Probl...

objects

This plugin greps every page for applets and other types of objects. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats under the hood: Plug...