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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2013-1055 EUVD-2013-1095GHSA-42p7-ggcc-r5fp

Potential DoS through abuse of rate limit in libunity-webapps for Firefox

Published Apr 7, 2021 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by canonical

Description

The unity-firefox-extension package could be tricked into dropping a C callback which was still in use, which Firefox would then free, causing Firefox to crash. This could be achieved by adding an action to the launcher and updating it with new callbacks until the libunity-webapps rate limit was hit. Fixed in 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 of unity-firefox-extension and in all versions of libunity-webapps by shipping an empty unity-firefox-extension package, thus disabling the extension entirely and invalidating the attack against the libunity-webapps package.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Canonical unity-firefox-extension 3.0.0 – < 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
Canonical libunity-webapps 2.5.0 – < 2.5.0~+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1 2.5.0~+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS unity-firefox-extension 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 —

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