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GLSA-200501-03 : Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: Various vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 16394

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-03 (Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: Various vulnerabilities)

 Maurycy Prodeus from isec.pl found a potentially exploitable buffer overflow in the handling of NNTP URLs. Furthermore, Martin (from ptraced.net) discovered that temporary files in recent versions of Mozilla-based products were sometimes stored world-readable with predictable names. The Mozilla Team also fixed a way of spoofing filenames in Firefox's 'What should Firefox do with this file' dialog boxes and a potential information leak about the existence of local filenames.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could craft a malicious NNTP link and entice a user to click it, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the browser. A local attacker could leverage the temporary file vulnerability to read the contents of another user's attachments or downloads. A remote attacker could also design a malicious web page that would allow to spoof filenames if the user uses the 'Open with...' function in Firefox, or retrieve information on the presence of specific files in the local filesystem.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Mozilla users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-1.7.5' All Mozilla binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-bin-1.7.5' All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0' All Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0' All Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-0.9' All Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-0.9'

See Also

https://isec.pl/en/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?29bcd626

https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/13144/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200501-03

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16394

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200501-03.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Published: 2/14/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mozilla, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mozilla-bin, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mozilla-firefox, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mozilla-firefox-bin, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mozilla-thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mozilla-thunderbird-bin, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-2227, CVE-2004-2228

GLSA: 200501-03