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Mozilla Firefox 3 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:	SA32713	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2008-11-13
Popularity:	9,938 views

Critical:	Highly critical
Impact:	Security Bypass Exposure of system information Exposure of sensitive information System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	Mozilla Firefox 3.x

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CVE reference:	CVE-2008-0017 CVE-2008-5015 CVE-2008-5016 CVE-2008-5017 CVE-2008-5018 CVE-2008-5019 CVE-2008-5021 CVE-2008-5022 CVE-2008-5023 CVE-2008-5024

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: SA32693: http://secunia.com/advisories/32693/

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