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Updates 1/24/17 - Firefox
Firefox 51.0
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/51.0/releasenotes/
New
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Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them
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Added a zoom button in the URL bar:
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- Displays percent above or below 100 percent when a user has changed the page zoom setting from the default
- Lets users return to the default setting by clicking on the button
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Improved video performance for users without GPU acceleration for less CPU usage and a better full screen experience
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Firefox will save passwords even in forms that do not have “submit” events
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Added support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback
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Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language
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A warning is displayed when a login page does not have a secure connection
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Added Georgian (ka) and Kabyle (kab) locales
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An even faster E10s! Tab Switching is better!
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Improved reliability of browser data sync
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Remove Belarusian (be) locale
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Updated to NSS 3.28.1
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Use 2D graphics library (Skia) for content rendering on Linux
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Re-enabled E10s support for Russian (ru) locale
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Available via internal updater: HELP / About Firefox
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January 24th, 2017 09:00
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 51
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/
#CVE-2017-5375: Excessive JIT code allocation allows bypass of ASLR and DEP
Description
JIT code allocation can allow for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks.
References
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#CVE-2017-5376: Use-after-free in XSL
Description
Use-after-free while manipulating XSL in XSLT documents
References
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#CVE-2017-5377: Memory corruption with transforms to create gradients in Skia
Description
A memory corruption vulnerability in Skia that can occur when using transforms to make gradients, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.
References
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#CVE-2017-5378: Pointer and frame data leakage of Javascript objects
Description
Hashed codes of JavaScript objects are shared between pages. This allows for pointer leaks because an object’s address can be discovered through hash codes, and also allows for data leakage of an object’s content using these hash codes.
References
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#CVE-2017-5379: Use-after-free in Web Animations
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Web Animations when interacting with cycle collection found through fuzzing.
References
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#CVE-2017-5380: Potential use-after-free during DOM manipulations
Description
A potential use-after-free found through fuzzing during DOM manipulation of SVG content.
References
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#CVE-2017-5390: Insecure communication methods in Developer Tools JSON viewer
Description
The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communication channel for copying and viewing JSON or HTTP headers data, allowing for potential privilege escalation.
References
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#CVE-2017-5389: WebExtensions can install additional add-ons via modified host requests
Description
WebExtensions could use the
mozAddonManager
API by modifying the CSP headers on sites with the appropriate permissions and then using host requests to redirect script loads to a malicious site. This allows a malicious extension to then install additional extensions without explicit user permission.References
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#CVE-2017-5396: Use-after-free with Media Decoder
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Media Decoder when working with media files when some events are fired after the media elements are freed from memory.
References
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#CVE-2017-5381: Certificate Viewer exporting can be used to navigate and save to arbitrary filesystem locations
Description
The "export" function in the Certificate Viewer can force local filesystem navigation when the "common name" in a certificate contains slashes, allowing certificate content to be saved in unsafe locations with an arbitrary filename.
References
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#CVE-2017-5382: Feed preview can expose privileged content errors and exceptions
Description
Feed preview for RSS feeds can be used to capture errors and exceptions generated by privileged content, allowing for the exposure of internal information not meant to be seen by web content.
References
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#CVE-2017-5383: Location bar spoofing with unicode characters
Description
URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar.
References
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#CVE-2017-5384: Information disclosure via Proxy Auto-Config (PAC)
Description
Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) files can specify a JavaScript function called for all URL requests with the full URL path which exposes more information than would be sent to the proxy itself in the case of HTTPS. Normally the Proxy Auto-Config file is specified by the user or machine owner and presumed to be non-malicious, but if a user has enabled Web Proxy Auto Detect (WPAD) this file can be served remotely.
References
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#CVE-2017-5385: Data sent in multipart channels ignores referrer-policy response headers
Description
Data sent with in multipart channels, such as the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type, will ignore the referrer-policy response header, leading to potential information disclosure for sites using this header.
References
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#CVE-2017-5386: WebExtensions can use data: protocol to affect other extensions
Description
WebExtension scripts can use the
data:
protocol to affect pages loaded by other web extensions using this protocol, leading to potential data disclosure or privilege escalation in affected extensions.References
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#CVE-2017-5394: Android location bar spoofing using fullscreen and JavaScript events
Description
References
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#CVE-2017-5391: Content about: pages can load privileged about: pages
Description
Special
about:
pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privilegedabout:
pages in an iframe. If a content-injection bug were found in one of those pages this could allow for potential privilege escalation.References
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#CVE-2017-5392: Weak references using multiple threads on weak proxy objects lead to unsafe memory usage
Description
Weak proxy objects have weak references on multiple threads when they should only have them on one, resulting in incorrect memory usage and corruption, which leads to potentially exploitable crashes.
Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected.
References
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#CVE-2017-5393: Remove addons.mozilla.org CDN from whitelist for mozAddonManager
Description
The
mozAddonManager
allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites.
References
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#CVE-2017-5395: Android location bar spoofing during scrolling
Reporter
Jordi Chancel
Impact
low
Description
References
Bug 1293463
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#CVE-2017-5387: Disclosure of local file existence through TRACK tag error messages
Reporter
Mustafa Hasan
Impact
low
Description
The existence of a specifically requested local file can be found due to the double firing of the
onerror
when thesource
attribute on atag refers to a file that does not exist if the source page is loaded locally.
References
Bug 1295023
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#CVE-2017-5388: WebRTC can be used to generate a large amount of UDP traffic for DDOS attacks
Reporter
Cullen Jennings
Impact
low
Description
A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of
webkitRTCPeerConnection
objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time due to a lack of rate limiting being applied on e10s systems, allowing for a denial of service attack.References
Bug 1281482
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#CVE-2017-5374: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 51
Reporter
Mozilla developers and community
Impact
critical
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Gary Kwong, Olli Pettay, Tooru Fujisawa, Carsten Book, Andrew McCreight, Chris Pearce, Ronald Crane, Jan de Mooij, Julian Seward, Nicolas Pierron, Randell Jesup, Esther Monchari, Honza Bambas, and Philipp reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 50.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
References
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 51
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#CVE-2017-5373: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 51 and Firefox ESR 45.7
Reporter
Mozilla developers and community
Impact
critical
Description
Mozilla developers and community members Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, André Bargull, Jan de Mooij, Tom Schuster, and Oriol reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox ESR 45.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
References
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 51 and Firefox ESR 45.7