An integer overflow in "createImageBitmap()" was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. The fix for this vulnerability disables the experimental extensions to the "createImageBitmap" API. This function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.0.1 and Firefox < 52.0.1.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A buffer overflow in WebGL triggerable by web content,     resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5459)

  - An out-of-bounds read during the processing of glyph     widths during text layout. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash and could allow an attacker to read     otherwise inaccessible memory. This vulnerability     affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox     ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5447)

  - An out-of-bounds read when an HTTP/2 connection to a     servers sends DATA frames with incorrect data content.
    This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5446)

  - An out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor while     decrypting some Clearkey-encrypted media content. The     ClearKeyDecryptor code runs within the Gecko Media     Plugin (GMP) sandbox. If a second mechanism is found to     escape the sandbox, this vulnerability allows for the     writing of arbitrary data within memory, resulting in a     potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability     affects Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and     Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5448)

  - A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and     manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert     with CSS animations. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox <     53. (CVE-2017-5449)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability during changes in style     when manipulating DOM elements. This results in a     potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability     affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox     ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5442)

  - An out-of-bounds write vulnerability while decoding     improperly formed BinHex format archives. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5443)

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability while parsing     application/http-index-format format content when the     header contains improperly formatted data. This allows     for an out-of-bounds read of data from memory. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5444)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability when holding a selection     during scroll events. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR <     52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5441)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during certain     text input selection resulting in a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR <     52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5432)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection     triggered by a combination of malicious script content     and key presses by a user. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR <     52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5460)

  - During DOM manipulations of the accessibility tree     through script, the DOM tree can become out of sync with     the accessibility tree, leading to memory corruption and     a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability     affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox     ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5464)

  - Fixed potential buffer overflows in generated Firefox     code due to CVE-2016-6354 issue in Flex. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5469)

  - An out-of-bounds read while processing SVG content in     ConvolvePixel. This results in a crash and also allows     for otherwise inaccessible memory being copied into SVG     graphic content, which could then displayed. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5465)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in SMIL animation     functions occurs when pointers to animation elements in     an array are dropped from the animation controller while     still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable     crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1,     Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox <     53. (CVE-2017-5433)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability occurs when redirecting     focus handling which results in a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR <     52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5434)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing     due to the result handler being held by a freed handler     during handling. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects     Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR <     52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5438)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing     due to poor handling of template parameters. This     results in a potentially exploitable crash. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5439)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability occurs during transaction     processing in the editor during design mode     interactions. This results in a potentially exploitable     crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1,     Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox <     53. (CVE-2017-5435)

  - An out-of-bounds read vulnerability with the Opus     encoder when the number of channels in an audio stream     changes while the encoder is in use. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and     Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7758)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in IndexedDB when one of     its objects is destroyed in memory while a method on it     is still being executed. This results in a potentially     exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox <     54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2.
    (CVE-2017-7757)

  - A number of security vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2     library including out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflow     reads and writes, and the use of uninitialized memory.
    These issues were addressed in Graphite 2 version     1.3.10. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox     ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7778)

  - An out of bounds read vulnerability was found in     libevent in the search_make_new function. If an attacker     could cause an application using libevent to attempt     resolving an empty hostname, an out of bounds read could     occur possibly leading to a crash. (CVE-2016-10197)

  - A vulnerability was found in libevent with the parsing     of DNS requests and replies. An attacker could send a     forged DNS response to an application using libevent     which could lead to reading data out of bounds on the     heap, potentially disclosing a small amount of     application memory. (CVE-2016-10195)

  - A vulnerability was found in libevent with the parsing     of IPv6 addresses. If an attacker could cause an     application using libevent to parse a malformed address     in IPv6 notation of more than 2GiB in length, a stack     overflow would occur leading to a crash.
    (CVE-2016-10196)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability during video control     operations when a  element holds a reference to     an older window if that window has been replaced in the     DOM. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
    This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR <     52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7750)

  - A use-after-free and use-after-scope vulnerability when     logging errors from headers for XML HTTP Requests (XHR).
    This could result in a potentially exploitable crash.
    This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR <     52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7756)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability when using an incorrect     URL during the reloading of a docshell. This results in     a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and     Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7749)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability during specific user     interactions with the input method editor (IME) in some     languages due to how events are handled. This results in     a potentially exploitable crash but would require     specific user interaction to trigger. This vulnerability     affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2, and     Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7752)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability with content viewer     listeners that results in a potentially exploitable     crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox     ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7751)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability with the frameloader     during tree reconstruction while regenerating CSS layout     when attempting to use a node in the tree that no longer     exists. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
    This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR <     52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-5472)

  - An out-of-bounds read in WebGL with a maliciously     crafted ImageInfo object during WebGL operations. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2,     and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7754)

  - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53 and     Firefox ESR 52.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of     memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort     that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary     code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox     ESR < 52.2, and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-5470)

  - An out of bounds read flaw related to     graphite2::Silf::readGraphite has been reported in     graphite2. An attacker could possibly exploit this flaw     to disclose potentially sensitive memory or cause an     application crash. (CVE-2017-7774)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow flaw related to     lz4::decompress (src/Decompressor) has been reported     in graphite2. An attacker could exploit this issue to     cause a crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2017-7773)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow flaw related to     lz4::decompress has been reported in graphite2. An     attacker could exploit this issue to cause a crash or,     possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7772)

  - An out of bounds read flaw related to     graphite2::Pass::readPass has been reported in     graphite2. An attacker could possibly exploit this flaw     to disclose potentially sensitive memory or cause an     application crash. (CVE-2017-7771)

  - The use of uninitialized memory related to     graphite2::GlyphCache::Loader::read_glyph has been     reported in graphite2. An attacker could possibly     exploit this flaw to negatively impact the execution of     an application using graphite2 in unknown ways.
    (CVE-2017-7777)

  - An out of bounds read flaw related to     graphite2::Silf::getClassGlyph has been reported in     graphite2. An attacker could possibly exploit this flaw     to disclose potentially sensitive memory or cause an     application crash. (CVE-2017-7776)

  - Characters from the Canadian Syllabics unicode block     can be mixed with characters from other unicode blocks     in the addressbar instead of being rendered as their raw     punycode form, allowing for domain name spoofing     attacks through character confusion. The current Unicode     standard allows characters from Aspirational Use     Scripts such as Canadian Syllabics to be mixed with     Latin characters in the moderately restrictive IDN     profile. We have changed Firefox behavior to match the     upcoming Unicode version 10.0 which removes this     category and treats them as Limited Use Scripts.. This     vulnerability affects Firefox < 54, Firefox ESR < 52.2,     and Thunderbird < 52.2. (CVE-2017-7764)

  - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 52, Firefox     ESR 45.8, Firefox ESR 52, and Thunderbird 52. Some of     these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we     presume that with enough effort that some of these could     be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability     affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox     ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5429)

  - A vulnerability while parsing application/http-index-     format format content where uninitialized values are     used to create an array. This could allow the reading of     uninitialized memory into the arrays affected. This     vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR <     45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
    (CVE-2017-5445)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing     due to a failure to propagate error conditions during     matching while evaluating context, leading to objects     being used when they no longer exist. This results in a     potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability     affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox     ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5440)

  - An out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library     triggered with a maliciously crafted Graphite font. This     results in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue     was fixed in the Graphite 2 library as well as Mozilla     products. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1,     Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox <     53. (CVE-2017-5436)

  - A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web     content. A web page containing malicious content could     cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute     arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running     Firefox. (CVE-2017-5428)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2017-5428)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Chaitin Security Research Lab via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as the original reporters.

Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the firefox package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Multiple flaws were found in the processing of     malformed web content. A web page containing malicious     content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially,     execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user     running Firefox. (CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5400,     CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5404,     CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410,     CVE-2017-5405,CVE-2017-5428)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of Mozilla Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 52.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an integer overflow condition in the nsGlobalWindow::CreateImageBitmap() function within file dom/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp due to improper validation of certain input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Note that this function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer.

The version of Mozilla Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 52.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an integer overflow condition in the nsGlobalWindow::CreateImageBitmap() function within file dom/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp due to improper validation of certain input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Note that this function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer.

The version of Mozilla Firefox ESR installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 52.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an integer overflow condition in the nsGlobalWindow::CreateImageBitmap() function within file dom/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp due to improper validation of certain input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Note that this function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer.

The version of Mozilla Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 52.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by an integer overflow condition in the nsGlobalWindow::CreateImageBitmap() function within file dom/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp due to improper validation of certain input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Note that this function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer.

- Added fix for CVE-2017-5428

  - Added fix for mozbz#1158076

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5428).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security Fix(es) :

  - A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web     content. A web page containing malicious content could     cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute     arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running     Firefox. (CVE-2017-5428)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 52.0.1 to fix one security issue :

  - CVE-2017-5428: integer overflow in createImageBitmap()     (boo#1029822, MFSA 2017-08)

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2017-5428)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Chaitin Security Research Lab via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as the original reporters.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2017:0558 :

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2017-5428)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Chaitin Security Research Lab via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as the original reporters.

The Mozilla Foundation reports :

An integer overflow in createImageBitmap() was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. The fix for this vulnerability disables the experimental extensions to the createImageBitmap API. This function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer.

Versions of Mozilla Firefox ESR earlier than 45.8.0 are unpatched for an integer overflow condition in the 'nsGlobalWindow::CreateImageBitmap()' function in 'dom/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp' that is triggered as certain input is not properly validated. This may allow a context-dependent attacker to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code.

Versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 52.01 are unpatched for an integer overflow condition in the 'nsGlobalWindow::CreateImageBitmap()' function in 'dom/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp' that is triggered as certain input is not properly validated. This may allow a context-dependent attacker to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
127332	NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0103)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	critical
101439	Virtuozzo 7 : firefox (VZLSA-2017-0558)	Nessus	Virtuozzo Local Security Checks	critical
99893	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : firefox (EulerOS-SA-2017-1048)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
99892	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : firefox (EulerOS-SA-2017-1047)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
99126	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 52.0.1 CreateImageBitmap RCE	Nessus	Windows	critical
99125	Mozilla Firefox < 52.0.1 CreateImageBitmap RCE	Nessus	Windows	critical
99124	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 52.0.1 CreateImageBitmap RCE (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
99123	Mozilla Firefox < 52.0.1 CreateImageBitmap RCE (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical
99056	Fedora 24 : firefox (2017-9e1ccfe586)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
97971	Fedora 25 : firefox (2017-cd33654294)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
97855	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerability (USN-3238-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
97845	Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL7.x x86_64 (20170317)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	critical
97843	openSUSE Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (openSUSE-2017-368)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
97836	CentOS 7 : firefox (CESA-2017:0558)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	critical
97822	RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2017:0558)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
97820	Oracle Linux 7 : firefox (ELSA-2017-0558)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
97809	FreeBSD : firefox -- integer overflow in createImageBitmap() (5f453b69-abab-4e76-b6e5-2ed0bafcaee3)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical
700013	Mozilla Firefox ESR < 45.8.0 RCE	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	medium
700012	Mozilla Firefox < 52.01 RCE	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	medium

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