Mozilla Firefox < 3.5.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5579

Synopsis

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

Description

Versions of Firefox earlier than 3.5.10 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

- A re-use of a freed object due to scope confusion. (MFSA 2010-25)
- Multiple crashes can result in code execution. (MFSA 2010-26)
- A use-after-free error in nsCycleCollector::MarkRoots(). (MFSA 2010-27)
- Freed object reuse across plugin instances. (MFSA 2010-28)
- A heap buffer overflow in nsGenericDOMDataNode::SetTextInternal. (MFSA 2010-29)
- An integer overflow in XSLT node sorting. (MFSA 2010-30)
The focus() behavior can be used to inject or steal keystrokes. (MFSA 2010-31)

- The 'Content-Disposition: attachment' HTTP header is ignored when 'Content-Type: multipart' is also present. (MFSA 2010-32)

It is possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random(). (MFSA 2008-33)

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 3.5.10 or later.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-25.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-26.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-29.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-30.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox35.html#firefox3.5.10

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-27.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-28.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-31.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-32.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-33.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5579

Family: Web Clients

Published: 6/23/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 47123

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5913, CVE-2010-0183, CVE-2010-1121, CVE-2010-1125, CVE-2010-1196, CVE-2010-1197, CVE-2010-1198, CVE-2010-1199, CVE-2010-1200, CVE-2010-1201, CVE-2010-1202, CVE-2010-1203

BID: 41082, 41090, 41102, 41103, 33276, 40701, 41087, 41093, 41094, 41050, 41100