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Secunia Advisory SA32713

Mozilla Firefox 3 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA32713
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Release Date 2008-11-13
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Exposure of system information
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 3.0.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-0017 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5015 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5016 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5017 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5018 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5019 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5021 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5022 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5023 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-5024 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

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

1) An error when processing "file:" URIs can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by tricking a user into opening a malicious local file in a tab previously opened for a "chrome:" document or a privileged "about:" URI.

2) Various errors in the layout engine can be exploited to cause memory corruptions and potentially execute arbitrary code.

3) An error in the browser engine can be exploited to cause a crash.

For more information see vulnerability #5 in:
SA32693

4) An error in the JavaScript engine can be exploited to cause a memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code.

5) An error in the browser's restore feature can be exploited to violate the same-origin policy.

For more information see vulnerability #7 in:
SA32693

6) An error in the processing of the "http-index-format" MIME type can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

For more information see vulnerability #8 in:
SA32693

7) An error in the DOM constructing code can be exploited to dereference uninitialized memory and potentially execute arbitrary code:

For more information see vulnerability #9 in:
SA32693

8) An error in "nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners()" can be exploited to bypass certain security restrictions.

For more information see vulnerability #10 in:
SA32693

9) An error can be exploited to manipulate signed JAR files and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of another site.

For more information see vulnerability #11 in:
SA32693

10) An error exists when parsing E4X documents can be exploited to inject arbitrary XML code.

For more information see vulnerability #12 in:
SA32693

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.0.4.


Solution
Update to version 3.0.4.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits:
1) Luke Bryan
2) Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers
3) Daniel Veditz
4) Joachim Kuebart
5) David Bloom and moz_bug_r_a4
6) Justin Schuh of IBM X-Force
7) ling and wushi of team509, reported via ZDI
8) moz_bug_r_a4
9) Collin Jackson
10) Chris Evans

Original Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-52.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-53.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-54.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-55.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-56.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-57.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-58.html

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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