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PCWorks: Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
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2006-09-15 10:18:37
TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21906

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.c
om/advisories/21906/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Spoofing, DoS, System

access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Firefox 1.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/4227/
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/3256/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, 
which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct
man-in-the-middle,
spoofing, and cross-site scripting attacks, and potentially
compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the handling of JavaScript regular
expressions
containing a minimal quantifier can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary
code.

2) The auto-update mechanism uses SSL to communicate
securely. 
The
problem is that users may have accepted an unverifiable 
self-signed
certificate when visiting a web site, which will allow an 
attacker to
redirect the update check to a malicious web site in a
man-in-the-middle attack.

3) Some time-dependent errors during text display can be 
exploited to
corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary
code.

This is related to:
SA21513

4) An error exists within the verification of certain 
signatures in
the bundled Network Security Services (NSS) library.

For more information:
SA21903

5) An error in the cross-domain handling can be exploited to

inject
arbitrary HTML and script code in a sub-frame of another web

site via
a "[window].frames[index].document.open()" call.

6) An error exists due to blocked popups opened from the
status 
bar
via the "blocked popups" functionality being
opened in an 
incorrect
context in certain situations. This may be exploited to
execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session
in 
context
of an arbitrary web site.

7) Some unspecified memory corruption errors may be
exploited 
to
execute arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.0.7.
http://www.mozilla.co
m/firefox/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa
2006-57.html
2) 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa
2006-58.html
3) 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa
2006-59.html
4) 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa
2006-60.html
5) 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa
2006-61.html
6) 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa
2006-62.html
7) 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa
2006-64.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21513:
http://secunia.c
om/advisories/21513/

SA21903:
http://secunia.c
om/advisories/21903/
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