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Firefox v15.0.1 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates then Apply Update
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Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
September 6, 2012

What's new...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
Complete list of Bug fixes:
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...s/buglist.html

- http://www.ghacks.net/2012/09/06/fir...ribution-soon/
Sep 6, 2012 - "... unfortunate bug in Mozilla Firefox 15 stable that is preventing the browser’s private browsing mode from working correctly. The bug was discovered shortly after Firefox 15 was distributed to users of the stable channel of the browser, and Mozilla has been working diligently ever since to resolve the issue... It is a issue of trust for Mozilla mainly, which can easily be lost if sensitive features are not working like they should. For users the situation may have been even more precarious as it may have forced them to explain their browsing activities to third parties..."
- http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/upl...fox-15.0.1.jpg
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- http://h-online.com/-1702798
7 Sep 2012

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Firefox v16.0 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates then Apply Update
-or-
Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Oct 9, 2012

What's new...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
Complete list of Bug fixes:
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...s/buglist.html

Security Advisories for v16.0:
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...html#firefox16
Fixed in Firefox 16
MFSA 2012-87 Use-after-free in the IME State Manager
MFSA 2012-86 Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2012-85 Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and out of bounds read issues found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2012-84 Spoofing and script injection through location.hash
MFSA 2012-83 Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) does not disallow acces to privileged functions or properties
MFSA 2012-82 top object and location property accessible by plugins
MFSA 2012-81 GetProperty function can bypass security checks
MFSA 2012-80 Crash with invalid cast when using instanceof operator
MFSA 2012-79 DOS and crash with full screen and history navigation
MFSA 2012-78 Reader Mode pages have chrome privileges
MFSA 2012-77 Some DOMWindowUtils methods bypass security checks
MFSA 2012-76 Continued access to initial origin after setting document.domain
MFSA 2012-75 select element persistance allows for attacks
MFSA 2012-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards ...
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- https://secunia.com/advisories/50856/
Release Date: 2012-10-10
Criticality level: Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Spoofing, System access
Where: From remote...
Solution: Upgrade to version 16...

- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027631
CVE Reference: CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3983, CVE-2012-3984, CVE-2012-3985, CVE-2012-3986, CVE-2012-3987, CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3989, CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3991, CVE-2012-3992, CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-3994, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4184, CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188
Oct 10 2012
Impact: Disclosure of authentication information, Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of system information, Modification of user information, User access via network...
Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (ESR 10.0.8; 16.0).

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Firefox v16.0.1 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates then Apply Update
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Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Oct 11, 2012

What's new...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

- https://blog.mozilla.org/security/20...in-firefox-16/
"Impact: The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters..."

Security Advisories for v16.0.1:
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...#firefox16.0.1
Fixed in Firefox 16.0.1
MFSA 2012-89 defaultValue security checks not applied
"... regression where security wrappers are unwrapped without doing a security check in defaultValue(). This can allow for improper access access to the Location object... CVE-2012-4192, CVE-2012-4193..."
MFSA 2012-88 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:16.0.1)
"... bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances... some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code... websockets crash affecting Firefox 16... CVE-2012-4190, CVE-2012-4191..."

- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2012-4190 - 10.0 (HIGH)
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2012-4191 - 10.0 (HIGH)
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2012-4192 - 4.3
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2012-4193 - 9.3 (HIGH)
12 Oct 2012
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027653
CVE Reference: CVE-2012-4190, CVE-2012-4191
Oct 12 2012
Impact: A remote user can create HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target user's system.
Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (16.0.1).

- https://secunia.com/advisories/50932/
Last Update: 2012-10-12
Criticality level: Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass, System access
Where: From remote
CVE Reference(s): CVE-2012-4190, CVE-2012-4191, CVE-2012-4192, CVE-2012-4193
... vulnerabilities are reported in Firefox and Thunderbird versions -prior- to 16.0.1 and SeaMonkey versions -prior- to 2.13.1.
Solution: Update Firefox and Thunderbird to versions 16.0.1 and SeaMonkey to version 2.13.1.

- http://h-online.com/-1728382
12 Oct 2012

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Firefox v16.0.2 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates then Apply Update
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Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Oct 26, 2012

What's new...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

Security Advisories for v16.0.2:
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...#firefox16.0.2
MFSA 2012-90 Fixes for Location object issues
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2012-4194 - 4.3
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2012-4195 - 5.1
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2012-4196 - 5.0
... before 16.0.2...
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027701
CVE Reference: CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195, CVE-2012-4196
Oct 27 2012
Impact: Disclosure of authentication information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of user information, User access via network
Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (16.0.2, ESR 10.0.10).

- https://secunia.com/advisories/51144/
Release Date: 2012-10-29
Impact: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Original Advisory: Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/anno...sa2012-90.html

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Firefox v17.0 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates ...
-or-
Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Nov 20, 2012

What's new...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
Complete list of Bug fixes:
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...s/buglist.html

Security Advisories for v17.0:
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...html#firefox17
MFSA 2012-106 Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2012-105 Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2012-104 CSS and HTML injection through Style Inspector
MFSA 2012-103 Frames can shadow top.location
MFSA 2012-102 Script entered into Developer Toolbar runs with chrome privileges
MFSA 2012-101 Improper character decoding in HZ-GB-2312 charset
MFSA 2012-100 Improper security filtering for cross-origin wrappers
MFSA 2012-99 XrayWrappers exposes chrome-only properties when not in chrome compartment
MFSA 2012-98 Firefox installer DLL hijacking
MFSA 2012-97 XMLHttpRequest inherits incorrect principal within sandbox
MFSA 2012-96 Memory corruption in str_unescape
MFSA 2012-95 Javascript: URLs run in privileged context on New Tab page
MFSA 2012-94 Crash when combining SVG text on path with CSS
MFSA 2012-93 evalInSanbox location context incorrectly applied
MFSA 2012-92 Buffer overflow while rendering GIF images
MFSA 2012-91 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:17.0/ rv:10.0.11) ...
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027791
CVE Reference: CVE-2012-4201, CVE-2012-4202, CVE-2012-4203, CVE-2012-4204, CVE-2012-4205, CVE-2012-4206, CVE-2012-4207, CVE-2012-4208, CVE-2012-4209, CVE-2012-4210, CVE-2012-4212, CVE-2012-4213, CVE-2012-4214, CVE-2012-4215, CVE-2012-4216, CVE-2012-4217, CVE-2012-4218, CVE-2012-5829, CVE-2012-5830, CVE-2012-5833, CVE-2012-5835, CVE-2012-5836, CVE-2012-5837, CVE-2012-5839, CVE-2012-5840, CVE-2012-5841, CVE-2012-5842, CVE-2012-5843
Nov 21 2012
Impact: A remote user can create content that, when loaded by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target user's system.
A remote user can access the target user's cookies (including authentication cookies), if any, associated with an arbitrary site, access data recently submitted by the target user via web form to the site, or take actions on the site acting as the target user.
Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (17.0)...

- https://secunia.com/advisories/51358/
Release Date: 2012-11-21
Criticality level: Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, System access
Where: From remote...
Solution: Upgrade to version 17.0...
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- http://h-online.com/-1754171
21 Nov 2012

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FYI...

Firefox v17.0.1 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates ...
-or-
Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Nov 30, 2012

What's new...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

Complete list of Bug fixes:
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...s/buglist.html

Security Advisories for v17.0.1:
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...#firefox17.0.1
Not available as date/time of this post

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Firefox v18.0 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates ...
-or-
Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Jan 8, 2013

What's new...
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
Complete list of Bug fixes:
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...s/buglist.html

Security Advisories for v18.0:
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...html#firefox18
Fixed in Firefox 18
MFSA 2013-20 Mis-issued TURKTRUST certificates
MFSA 2013-19 Use-after-free in Javascript Proxy objects
MFSA 2013-18 Use-after-free in Vibrate
MFSA 2013-17 Use-after-free in ListenerManager
MFSA 2013-16 Use-after-free in serializeToStream
MFSA 2013-15 Privilege escalation through plugin objects
MFSA 2013-14 Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) bypass through changing prototype
MFSA 2013-13 Memory corruption in XBL with XML bindings containing SVG
MFSA 2013-12 Buffer overflow in Javascript string concatenation
MFSA 2013-11 Address space layout leaked in XBL objects
MFSA 2013-10 Event manipulation in plugin handler to bypass same-origin policy
MFSA 2013-09 Compartment mismatch with quickstubs returned values
MFSA 2013-08 AutoWrapperChanger fails to keep objects alive during garbage collection
MFSA 2013-07 Crash due to handling of SSL on threads
MFSA 2013-06 Touch events are shared across iframes
MFSA 2013-05 Use-after-free when displaying table with many columns and column groups
MFSA 2013-04 URL spoofing in addressbar during page loads
MFSA 2013-03 Buffer Overflow in Canvas
MFSA 2013-02 Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2013-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:18.0/ rv:10.0.12 / rv:17.0.2)
MFSA 2012-98 Firefox installer DLL hijacking
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1027955
CVE Reference: CVE-2013-0743, CVE-2013-0744, CVE-2013-0745, CVE-2013-0746, CVE-2013-0747, CVE-2013-0748, CVE-2013-0749, CVE-2013-0750, CVE-2013-0751, CVE-2013-0752, CVE-2013-0753, CVE-2013-0754, CVE-2013-0755, CVE-2013-0756, CVE-2013-0757, CVE-2013-0758, CVE-2013-0759, CVE-2013-0760, CVE-2013-0761, CVE-2013-0762, CVE-2013-0763, CVE-2013-0764, CVE-2013-0766, CVE-2013-0767, CVE-2013-0768, CVE-2013-0769, CVE-2013-0770, CVE-2013-0771
Jan 9 2013
Impact: Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of user information, User access via network
Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
Version(s): prior to 18.0
Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (ESR 10.0.12, ESR 17.0.2, 18.0)...

- http://h-online.com/-1780088
9 Jan 2013 - "Mozilla has fixed 20 security holes with the release... 12 of these vulnerabilities have been rated critical by the organisation, the rest are classified as having high impact..."

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Firefox v22.0 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates ...
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Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
June 25, 2013

Security Advisories for v22.0:
* https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...html#firefox22
Fixed in Firefox 22
MFSA 2013-62 Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation
MFSA 2013-61 Homograph domain spoofing in .com, .net and .name
MFSA 2013-60 getUserMedia permission dialog incorrectly displays location
MFSA 2013-59 XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context
MFSA 2013-58 X-Frame-Options ignored when using server push with multi-part responses
MFSA 2013-57 Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements
MFSA 2013-56 PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior
MFSA 2013-55 SVG filters can lead to information disclosure
MFSA 2013-54 Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks
MFSA 2013-53 Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event
MFSA 2013-52 Arbitrary code execution within Profiler
MFSA 2013-51 Privileged content access and execution via XBL
MFSA 2013-50 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2013-49 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:22.0 / rv:17.0.7)

Release notes
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

... complete list of changes in this release... 510 bugs found.
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- https://secunia.com/advisories/53970/
Release Date: 2013-06-26
Criticality level: Highly Critical
Impact: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Spoofing, Exposure of sensitive information, System access
... vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 22.0.
Solution: Upgrade to version 22.0.

- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028702
CVE Reference: CVE-2013-1682, CVE-2013-1683, CVE-2013-1684, CVE-2013-1685, CVE-2013-1686, CVE-2013-1687, CVE-2013-1688, CVE-2013-1690, CVE-2013-1692, CVE-2013-1693, CVE-2013-1694, CVE-2013-1695, CVE-2013-1696, CVE-2013-1697, CVE-2013-1698, CVE-2013-1699, CVE-2013-1700
Jun 26 2013
Impact: Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of user information, User access via local system, User access via network
Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
Version(s): prior to ESR 17.0.7; prior to 22.0 ...

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Firefox v 23.0 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates ...
-or-
Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes/

Security Advisories
Fixed in Firefox 23

MFSA 2013-75 Local Java applets may read contents of local file system
MFSA 2013-74 Firefox full and stub installer DLL hijacking
MFSA 2013-73 Same-origin bypass with web workers and XMLHttpRequest
MFSA 2013-72 Wrong principal used for validating URI for some Javascript components
MFSA 2013-71 Further Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater
MFSA 2013-70 Bypass of XrayWrappers using XBL Scopes
MFSA 2013-69 CRMF requests allow for code execution and XSS attacks
MFSA 2013-68 Document URI misrepresentation and masquerading
MFSA 2013-67 Crash during WAV audio file decoding
MFSA 2013-66 Buffer overflow in Mozilla Maintenance Service and Mozilla Updater
MFSA 2013-65 Buffer underflow when generating CRMF requests
MFSA 2013-64 Use after free mutating DOM during SetBody
MFSA 2013-63 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:23.0 / rv:17.0.8)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...s/firefox.html

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Firefox 28.0 released

From an admin. account, start Firefox, then >Help >About >Check for Updates ...
-or-
Download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html

Security Advisories for 28.0:
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...html#firefox28
MFSA 2014-32 Out-of-bounds write through TypedArrayObject after neutering
MFSA 2014-31 Out-of-bounds read/write through neutering ArrayBuffer objects
MFSA 2014-30 Use-after-free in TypeObject
MFSA 2014-29 Privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs
MFSA 2014-28 SVG filters information disclosure through feDisplacementMap
MFSA 2014-27 Memory corruption in Cairo during PDF font rendering
MFSA 2014-26 Information disclosure through polygon rendering in MathML
MFSA 2014-25 Firefox OS DeviceStorageFile object vulnerable to relative path escape
MFSA 2014-24 Android Crash Reporter open to manipulation
MFSA 2014-23 Content Security Policy for data: documents not preserved by session restore
MFSA 2014-22 WebGL content injection from one domain to rendering in another
MFSA 2014-21 Local file access via Open Link in new tab
MFSA 2014-20 onbeforeunload and Javascript navigation DOS
MFSA 2014-19 Spoofing attack on WebRTC permission prompt
MFSA 2014-18 crypto.generateCRMFRequest does not validate type of key
MFSA 2014-17 Out of bounds read during WAV file decoding
MFSA 2014-16 Files extracted during updates are not always read only
MFSA 2014-15 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:28.0 / rv:24.4)

Release notes
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
Mar 18, 2014

... complete list of changes in this release... 865 bugs found.
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029928
CVE Reference: CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1494, CVE-2014-1496, CVE-2014-1497, CVE-2014-1498, CVE-2014-1499, CVE-2014-1500, CVE-2014-1501, CVE-2014-1502, CVE-2014-1504, CVE-2014-1505, CVE-2014-1506, CVE-2014-1507, CVE-2014-1508, CVE-2014-1509, CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511, CVE-2014-1512, CVE-2014-1513, CVE-2014-1514
Mar 19 2014
Impact: Denial of service via network, Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of user information, User access via local system, User access via network
Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
Version(s): prior to 28.0 ...
Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (28.0)...
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- https://www.computerworld.com/s/arti..._Pwn2Own_holes
Mar 19, 2014 - "... Firefox 28 was primarily a security update, patching the five Pwn2Own flaws and 15 others..."
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Firefox 28.0.1 for Android
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/kno...#firefox28.0.1

- https://www.mozilla.org/security/ann...sa2014-33.html

- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2014-1515
"... Firefox before 28.0.1 on Android processes a file: URL by copying a local file onto the SD card, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from the Firefox profile directory via a crafted application..."