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Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16911
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Release Date:
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2005-09-23
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Popularity:
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28,766 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Spoofing
Manipulation of data
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Mozilla Firefox 0.x
Mozilla Firefox 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2701
CVE-2005-2702
CVE-2005-2703
CVE-2005-2704
CVE-2005-2705
CVE-2005-2706
CVE-2005-2707
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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks, manipulate certain data, bypass certain security restrictions, and compromise a user's system.
1) A boundary error in the processing of XBM images can be exploited to cause a heap based buffer overflow via a specially crafted image.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
2) An error in the processing of Unicode sequences with "zero-width non-joiner" characters can be exploited to corrupt the stack and cause a crash.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
3) An input validation error in the processing of headers passed to the "XMLHttpRequest" object can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTTP requests.
4) An unspecified error where a XBL control which implements an internal interface can spoof DOM objects.
This is similar to vulnerability #8 in:
SA16043
5) An unspecified integer overflow error in the JavaScript engine can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
6) The problem is that unprivileged "about:" pages can load privileged "chrome:" pages in certain situations.
This does not pose any security risk by it self, but can be exploited in combination with other cross-site scripting vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code.
7) An error in the creation of windows can be exploited to open a new window without the address bar and status bar via a reference to a closed window.
Successful exploitation allows bypass of certain security mechanisms designed to protect against phishing attacks.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.0.6. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 1.0.7.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) jackerror
2) Mats Palmgren
3) Tim Altman and Yutaka Oiwa
4) moz_bug_r_a4
5) Georgi Guninski
6) heatsync and shutdown
7) moz_bug_r_a4
Original Advisory:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html
Other References:
SA16043:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16043/
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