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Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:
SA28758
Release Date:
2008-02-08
Critical:
Highly critical
Impact:
Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
Where:
From remote
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch
Software:
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x
CVE reference:
CVE-2008-0412 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0413 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0414 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0415 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0419 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0591 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0593 (Secunia mirror)
Description:
Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, conduct spoofing attacks, or to compromise a user's system.
1) Various errors in the browser engine can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.
2) Various errors in the Javascript engine can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.
3) A weakness is caused due to a design error within the focus handling and can potentially be exploited to trick a user into uploading arbitrary files.
This is related to:
SA25904
4) An error in the Javascript engine can be exploited to run Javascript code with "chrome" privileges.
5) An error in the Javascript engine can be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy via the "XMLDocument.load()" function.
6) An error exists in the handling of images when a user leaves a page, which uses "designMode" frames. This can be exploited to disclose the user's navigation history, forward navigation information, and to cause a memory corruption.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code.
7) A design error related to timer-enabled dialogs can be exploited to trick a user into unintentionally confirming a security dialog.
8) The problem is that Firefox follows "302" redirects for stylesheets and allows reading the target URL via "element.sheet.href". This can potentially be exploited to disclose sensitive URL parameters.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.0.12.
Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.
Solution:
Update to version 2.0.0.12.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.12/releasenotes/#download
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
1) Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren, and Paul Nickerson
2) Carsten Book, Wesley Garland, Igor Bukanov, moz_bug_r_a4, shutdown, Philip Taylor, and tgirmann
3) hong and Gregory Fleisher
4) moz_bug_r_a4 and Boris Zbarsky
5) moz_bug_r_a4
6) David Bloom
7) Michal Zalewski
8) Martin Straka
Original Advisory:
Mozilla Foundation:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-01.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-02.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-03.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-05.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-06.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-08.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-10.html
Other References:
SA25904:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25904/