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  Home / Hackers / About Hackers / Software Vulnerabilities / Examples and Descriptions / SA36671

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia ID

SA36671

CVE-ID

CVE-2009-3069, CVE-2009-3070, CVE-2009-3071, CVE-2009-3072, CVE-2009-3073, CVE-2009-3074, CVE-2009-3075, CVE-2009-3076, CVE-2009-3077, CVE-2009-3078, CVE-2009-3079

Release Date

10 Sep 2009

Last Change

11 Sep 2009

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.


Security Bypass

This covers vulnerabilities or security issues where malicious users or people can bypass certain security mechanisms of the application.

The actual impact varies significantly depending on the design and purpose of the affected application.


Spoofing

This covers various vulnerabilities where it is possible for malicious users or people to impersonate other users or systems.


Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct spoofing attacks, or compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Multiple errors in the browser and JavaScript engines can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) The warning dialog displayed when adding or removing security modules via pkcs11.addmodule or pkcs11.deletemodule does not contain enough information. This can be exploited to potentially trick a user into installing a malicious PKCS11 module.

NOTE: This vulnerability does not affect 3.5.x versions.

3) An error exists when processing operations performed on the columns of a XUL tree element. This can be exploited to dereference freed memory via a pointer owned by a column of the XUL tree element.

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

4) An error exists when displaying text in the location bar using the default Windows font. This can be exploited to spoof the URL of a trusted site via Unicode characters having a tall line-height.

5) An error in the implementation of the "BrowserFeedWriter" object can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges.

Solution

Update to version 3.0.14 or 3.5.3.

Reported by

3) an anonymous researcher, reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative
2) Dan Kaminsky

The vendor credits:
1) Steve Roussey, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Olli Pettay, toshi, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Carsten Book, and Taral.
2) Jesse Ruderman.
4) Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian.
5) moz_bug_r_a4.

Original Advisory

Mozilla Foundation:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-47.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-48.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-49.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-50.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-51.html

ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-065/

Dan Kaminsky:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-09/0142.html




 

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