Firefox < 2.0.0.19 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 800754

Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 2.0.0.19. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues :

- There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption. (MFSA 2008-60)

- XBL bindings can be used to read data from other domains. (MFSA 2008-61)

- The feed preview still allows for JavaScript privilege escalation. (MFSA 2008-62)

- Sensitive data may be disclosed in an XHR response when an XMLHttpRequest is made to a same-origin resource, which 302 redirects to a resource in a different domain. (MFSA 2008-64)

- A website may be able to access a limited amount of data from a different domain by loading a same-domain JavaScript URL which redirects to an off-domain target resource containing data that is not parsable as JavaScript. (MFSA 2008-65)

- Errors arise when parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters. (MFSA 2008-66)

- An escaped null byte is ignored by the CSS parser and treated as if it was not present in the CSS input string. (MFSA 2008-67)

- XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation are possible. (MFSA 2008-68)

- XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore may allow for violating the browser's same-origin policy and performing an XSS attack or running arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges. (MFSA 2008-69)

Note that Mozilla is not planning further security / stability updates for Firefox 2.x.

- A denial of service issue when the application handles a maliciously crafted webpage containing a 'HTMLSelectElement' object with a large length attribute.

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.0.19, 3.0.5 or higher.

See Also

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504969/100/0/threaded

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-61.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-62.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-64.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-65.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-67.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-68.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-69.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?9e442733