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Secunia Advisory SA33184

Mozilla Firefox 2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA33184
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2008-12-17
Last Update 2008-12-19
   
Popularity 8,582 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
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
   
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-2008-5500 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5503 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5504 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5506 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5507 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5508 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5510 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5511 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5512 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2008-5513 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, disclose sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, or potentially compromise a user's system.

1) Multiple errors in the layout engine can be exploited to corrupt memory and potentially execute arbitrary code.

2) An error in the processing of XBL bindings can be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy and read data from a target document in another domain.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the target document contains a "<bindingsi>" element and that the "id" of the read binding is known.

3) An error in the feed preview functionality can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges.

This is related to vulnerability #3 in:
SA31984

4) An error exists when processing "XMLHttpRequest" requests to a web server which redirects the browser via a 302 HTTP status code. This can be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy and disclose sensitive information from another domain.

5) An error exists when processing JavaScript URLs redirecting the browser to another domain returning non-JavaScript data. This can be exploited to disclose sensitive information from the other domain via a "window.onerror" event handler.

6) An error when processing URLs starting with whitespace or certain control characters can be exploited to output a malformed URL when rendering a hyperlink.

7) An error in the CSS parser when processing "\0" sequences can be exploited to potentially bypass third party script sanitation routines.

8) An error when processing an XBL binding attached to an unloaded document can be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a different domain.

9) Two errors can be exploited to pollute "XPCNativeWrappers" and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges.

10) Several errors in the session restore feature can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a different domain or with chrome privileges.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.0.19.


Solution
Update to version 2.0.0.20 (Windows), or 2.0.0.19 or later (other platforms).
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
5) Chris Evans of Google Security

The vendor credits:
1) Daniel Veditz, Jesse Ruderman, and David Baron
2) Boris Zbarsky
3, 8-10) moz_bug_r_a4
4) Marius Schilder of Google Security
6) Chip Salzenberg, Justin Schuh, Tom Cross, and Peter William
7) Kojima Hajime

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-61.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-62.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-64.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-65.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-67.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-68.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-69.html

Chris Evans:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-011.html

Other references
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Deep Links
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