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Secunia Advisory SA30761

Mozilla Products CSS Objects Handling Code Execution
Secunia Advisory SA30761
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Release Date 2008-06-19
Last Update 2008-07-24
   
Popularity 40,079 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact 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
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x
Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-2785 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of reference counters for CSS objects. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via an overly large number of references to a common CSS object

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to Firefox 3.0.1 and 2.0.0.16, Thunderbird 2.0.0.16, and SeaMonkey 1.1.11.


Solution
Update to the fixed versions.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported via the Zero Day Initiative.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
MFSA 2008-34:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-34.html

TippingPoint:
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/06/18/vulnerability-in-mozilla-firefox-30
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-044/

Deep Links
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