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Secunia Advisory SA16911

Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA16911
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Release Date 2005-09-23
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Spoofing
Manipulation of data
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
Mozilla Firefox 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-2701 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2702 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2703 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2704 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2705 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2706 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2707 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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.
Further details available in Customer Area

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
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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