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Secunia Advisory SA29526

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA29526
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Release Date 2008-03-26
Last Update 2008-03-28
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
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 2.0.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-4879 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1195 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1233 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1234 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1235 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1236 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1237 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1238 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1240 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-1241 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose potentially sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting and phishing attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

1) An unspecified error in the handling of "XPCNativeWrappers" can lead to the execution of arbitrary Javascript code with the user's privileges via "setTimeout()" calls.

This is related to vulnerability #7 in:
SA27311

2) Various errors in the handling of Javascript code can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks or execute arbitrary code.

3) Various errors in the layout engine can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.

4) Various errors in the Javascript engine can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

5) An error within the handling of HTTP "Referer:" headers sent with requests to URLs containing "Basic Authentication" credentials having an empty username can be exploited to bypass cross-site request forgery protections.

6) The problem is that Firefox offers a previously configured private SSL certificate when establishing connections to webservers requesting SSL Client Authentication. This can potentially be exploited to disclose sensitive information via a malicious webserver.

7) An error in the handling of the "jar:" protocol can be exploited to establish connections to arbitrary ports on the local machine.

This is related to vulnerability #10 in:
SA29239

8) An error when displaying XUL pop-up windows can be exploited to hide the window's borders and facilitate phishing attacks.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.0.13.


Solution
Update to version 2.0.0.13.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) moz_bug_r_a4
2) moz_bug_r_a4, Boris Zbarsky, and Johnny Stenback
3) Tom Ferris, Seth Spitzer, Martin Wargers, John Daggett, and Mats Palmgren
4) georgi, tgirmann, and Igor Bukanov
5, 7) Gregory Fleischer
6) Peter Brodersen and Alexander Klink
8) Chris Thomas

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-14.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-15.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-16.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-17.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-18.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-19.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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