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Secunia Advisory SA31984

Mozilla Firefox 2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA31984
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2008-09-24
   
Popularity 9,249 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-0016 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-3835 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-3836 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-3837 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4058 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4059 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4060 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4061 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4062 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4065 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4066 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4067 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4068 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-4069 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, to disclose sensitive information, or to potentially compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error in the processing of hyperlinks can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted UTF-8 hyperlink URL.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) An error in the implementation of the same-origin check in "nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect()" can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in the context of a different website.

3) Multiple errors in "feedWriter" can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code with Chrome privileges.

4) An error in the JavaScript move and resize functionality can be exploited to trick the user into clicking an unintended button and e.g. download a malicious file.

5) Multiple errors can be exploited to pollute "XPCNativeWrappers" and run arbitrary script code with Chrome privileges.

6) Multiple errors in "XSLT" and "document.loadBindingDocument()" while creating documents can be exploited to run arbitrary script code with Chrome privileges.

7) Multiple errors in the layout and JavaScript engines can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code.

8) An error in the processing of BOM characters included in JavaScript code can be exploited to potentially bypass script filters and facilitate cross-site scripting attacks.

9) An error exists in the HTML parser when processing low surrogate HTML-escaped characters can be exploited to potentially bypass script filters and facilitate cross-site scripting.

10) Multiple errors in the implementation of the "resource:" protocol can be exploited to perform directory traversal attacks and disclose sensitive information.

11) An error in the XBM decoder can be exploited to read data from uninitialized memory locations.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.0.17.


Solution
Update to version 2.0.0.17.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits:
1) Justin Schuh and Tom Cross of IBM X-Force and Peter Williams of IBM Watson Labs
2, 3) moz_bug_r_a4
4) Paul Nickerson
5) moz_bug_r_a4
6) Olli Pettay and moz_bug_r_a4
7) Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and Antoine Labour
8) Dave Reed, Microsoft
9) Gareth Heyes
10) Boris Zbarsky and Georgi Guninski
11) Billy Hoffman

Original Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-37.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-38.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-39.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-40.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-41.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-44.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-45.html

Deep Links
Links available to Secunia VIM customers


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