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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 < 3.6.20 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801343

Synopsis

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

Description

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

Versions of Firefox 3.6 earlier than 3.6.20 are potentially affected by the following security issues :

- A dangling pointer vulnerability exists in an SVG text manipulation routine. (CVE-2011-0084)

. -A DOM accounting error exists in the 'appendChild' JavaScript function that can allow an invalid pointer to be dereferenced. (CVE-2011-2378)

 - An error exists in 'ThinkPadSensor: : Startup' that can allow malicious DLLs to be loaded. (CVE-2011-2980)

 - An error exists in the event management code that can allow JavaScript to execute in the context of a different website and possibly in the chrome-privileged context. (CVE-2011-2981)

 - Various unspecified memory safety issues exist. (CVE-2011-2982)

 - A cross-domain information disclosure vulnerability exists if the configuration option 'RegExp.input' is set. (CVE-2011-2983)

 - A privilege escalation vulnerability exists if web content is registered to handle 'drop' events and a browser tab is dropped in that element's area. This can allow the web content to execute with browser chrome privileges. (CVE-2011-2984)

Solution

Upgrade to Firefox 6.0 or later.

See Also

http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html

http://.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-270

http://.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-271

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 801343

Family: Web Clients

Published: 8/18/2011

Nessus ID: 55901

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0084, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2980, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2983, CVE-2011-2984

BID: 49213