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Sun Solaris Mozilla 1.7 Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA25839
Release Date: 2007-06-27
Last Update: 2007-08-24
Popularity: 4,541 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-3811
CVE-2006-5463


Description:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Mozilla 1.7 for Sun Solaris, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A memory corruption error may potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

For more information see vulnerability #11 in:
SA19873

2) An error within the handling of Script objects can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript bytecode.

For more information see vulnerability #2 in:
SA22722

The vulnerabilities are reported in Mozilla 1.7 for Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for both the x86 and SPARC platforms. Mozilla 1.4 may also be affected.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Sun Solaris 8 and 9:
Apply patch 120671-06:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120671-06-1

Sun Solaris 10:
Apply patch 119115-30:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119115-30-1

-- x86 Platform --

Sun Solaris 8 and 9:
Apply patch 120672-06:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120672-06-1

Sun Solaris 10:
Apply patch 119116-30:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119116-30-1

Changelog:
2007-07-25: Updated "Description" section with additional vulnerability. Added link to "Original advisory" and "Other References" section. Added CVE reference.
2007-08-24: Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102971-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103011-1

Other References:
SA19873:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19873/

SA22722:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22722/


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