Vulnerabilites related to Canonical - libunity-webapps
CVE-2013-1055 (GCVE-0-2013-1055)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-04-07 19:20
Modified
2024-09-16 21:08
CWE
  • CWE-404 - Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
Summary
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.
References
https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical unity-firefox-extension Version: 3.0.0   < 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
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   Canonical libunity-webapps Version: 2.5.0   < 2.5.0~+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1
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