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Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA29526
Release Date: 2008-03-26
Last Update: 2008-03-28
Popularity: 14,412 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x

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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.

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