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Mozilla Firefox 2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31984
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Release Date:
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2008-09-24
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Popularity:
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2,817 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x
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Binary Analysis:
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BA573 :: Available for 1 Credit 
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0016
CVE-2008-3835
CVE-2008-3836
CVE-2008-3837
CVE-2008-4058
CVE-2008-4059
CVE-2008-4060
CVE-2008-4061
CVE-2008-4062
CVE-2008-4065
CVE-2008-4066
CVE-2008-4067
CVE-2008-4068
CVE-2008-4069
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, to disclose sensitive information, or to potentially compromise a user's system.
1) A boundary error in the processing of hyperlinks can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted UTF-8 hyperlink URL.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
2) An error in the implementation of the same-origin check in "nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect()" can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in the context of a different website.
3) Multiple errors in "feedWriter" can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code with Chrome privileges.
4) An error in the JavaScript move and resize functionality can be exploited to trick the user into clicking an unintended button and e.g. download a malicious file.
5) Multiple errors can be exploited to pollute "XPCNativeWrappers" and run arbitrary script code with Chrome privileges.
6) Multiple errors in "XSLT" and "document.loadBindingDocument()" while creating documents can be exploited to run arbitrary script code with Chrome privileges.
7) Multiple errors in the layout and JavaScript engines can be exploited to corrupt memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code.
8) An error in the processing of BOM characters included in JavaScript code can be exploited to potentially bypass script filters and facilitate cross-site scripting attacks.
9) An error exists in the HTML parser when processing low surrogate HTML-escaped characters can be exploited to potentially bypass script filters and facilitate cross-site scripting.
10) Multiple errors in the implementation of the "resource:" protocol can be exploited to perform directory traversal attacks and disclose sensitive information.
11) An error in the XBM decoder can be exploited to read data from uninitialized memory locations.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.0.17.
Solution:
Update to version 2.0.0.17.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
1) Justin Schuh and Tom Cross of IBM X-Force and Peter Williams of IBM Watson Labs
2, 3) moz_bug_r_a4
4) Paul Nickerson
5) moz_bug_r_a4
6) Olli Pettay and moz_bug_r_a4
7) Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski, and Antoine Labour
8) Dave Reed, Microsoft
9) Gareth Heyes
10) Boris Zbarsky and Georgi Guninski
11) Billy Hoffman
Original Advisory:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-37.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-38.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-39.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-40.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-41.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-44.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-45.html
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