RHSA-2013:1140Critical

Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Published
August 7, 2013
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2013-1701 →CVE-2013-1709 →CVE-2013-1710 →CVE-2013-1713 →CVE-2013-1714 →CVE-2013-1717 →

📋 Description

CVE-2013-1701 — Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:17.0.8) (MFSA 2013-63) CVE-2013-1709 — Mozilla: Document URI misrepresentation and masquerading (MFSA 2013-68) CVE-2013-1710 — Mozilla: CRMF requests allow for code execution and XSS attacks (MFSA 2013-69) CVE-2013-1713 — Mozilla: Wrong principal used for validating URI for some Javascript components (MFSA 2013-72) CVE-2013-1714 — Mozilla: Same-origin bypass with web workers and XMLHttpRequest (MFSA 2013-73) CVE-2013-1717 — Mozilla: Local Java applets may read contents of local file system (MFSA 2013-75)

🎯 Affected products124

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

🔗 References (10)