Mozilla Firefox 3.x < 3.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4591

Synopsis

The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

Versions of Firefox 3.x prior to 3.0.1 are affected by various security issues :

- By creating a very large number of references to a common CSS object, an attacker can overflow the CSS reference counter, causing a crash when the browser attempts to free the CSS object while still in use and allowing for arbitrary code execution (MFSA 2008-34).
- If Firefox is not already running, passing it a command-line URI with pipe ('|') symbols will open multiple tabs, which could be used to launch 'chrome:i' URIs from the command-line or to pass URIs to Firefox that would normally be handled by a vector application (MFSA 2008-35).

Solution

Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.1 or higher.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-35.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-34.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4591

Family: Web Clients

Published: 8/18/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 33522

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2933, CVE-2008-3198

BID: 29802, 30242, 30244