Secunia Advisory SA21906

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA21906
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Release Date 2006-09-15
Last Update 2007-06-19
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Partial Fix
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
Mozilla Firefox 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-4253 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4339 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4340 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4565 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4566 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4567 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4568 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2006-4571 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-3089 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and cross-site scripting attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the handling of JavaScript regular expressions containing a minimal quantifier can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) The auto-update mechanism uses SSL to communicate securely. The problem is that users may have accepted an unverifiable self-signed certificate when visiting a web site, which will allow an attacker to redirect the update check to a malicious web site in a man-in-the-middle attack.

3) Some time-dependent errors during text display can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

This is related to:
SA21513

4) An error exists within the verification of certain signatures in the bundled Network Security Services (NSS) library.

For more information:
SA21903

5) An error in the cross-domain handling can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code in a sub-frame of another web site via a "[window].frames[index].document.open()" call.

6) An error exists due to blocked popups opened from the status bar via the "blocked popups" functionality being opened in an incorrect context in certain situations. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an arbitrary web site.

7) Some unspecified memory corruption errors may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Solution
Update to version 1.5.0.7.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Priit Laes, CanadianGuy, Girts Folkmanis, and Catalin Patulea
2) Jon Oberheide
3) Jonathan Watt and Michal Zalewski
4) Philip Mackenzie and Marius Schilder, Google
5-6) shutdown
7) Bernd Mielke, Georgi Guninski, Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren, Olli Pettay, shutdown, and Weston Carloss

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
1) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-57.html
2) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-58.html
3) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-59.html
4) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-60.html
5) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-61.html
6) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-62.html
7) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-64.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382686

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ifsnatch/

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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