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Secunia Advisory SA37242

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA37242
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Release Date 2010-02-18
Last Update 2010-04-05
   
Popularity 10,682 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
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
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-1571 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-3988 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0159 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0160 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0162 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0167 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0169 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0171 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0179 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, or compromise a user's system.

1) An error exists when handling out-of-memory conditions. This can be exploited to trigger a memory corruption and execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted web page.

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

3) An error in the implementation of Web Worker array data types when processing posted messages can be exploited to corrupt memory and potentially execute arbitrary code.

4) An error exists in the implementation of the "showModalDialog()" function. This can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of a domain calling the affected function with external parameters.

5) An error exists when processing SVG documents served with a Content-Type of "application/octet-stream". This can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of a domain hosting the SVG document.

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

7) An error related to the implementation of the "addEventListener()" and "setTimeout()" methods can be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy.

This is related to vulnerability #3 in:
SA26095

8) An error in the processing of stylesheets used in XUL documents can be exploited to pollute the XUL cache and change browser style attributes.

9) An error related to the XMLHttpRequestSpy object can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.5.8 and 3.0.18.


Solution
Update to version 3.0.18 or 3.5.8.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research
3) Orlando Barrera II of SecTheory, reported via ZDI
4) an anonymous researcher, reported via ZDI

The vendor also credits:
2) Henri Sivonen, Boris Zbarsky, Zack Weinberg, Bob Clary, Martijn Wargers, and Paul Nickerson
4) Hidetake Jo, Microsoft Vulnerability Research
5) Georgi Guninski, Mozilla
6) Bob Clary and Carsten Book
7, 9) moz_bug_r_a4
8) Wladimir Palant

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-01.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-02.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-03.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-04.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-05.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-11.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-12.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-14.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-21.html

Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-45/

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-019/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-046/

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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