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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | unity-firefox-extension | 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 | — |
References
- https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3 vendor-advisory
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691 vendor-advisory