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Debian DSA-866-1 : mozilla - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 20063

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several security-related problems have been discovered in Mozilla and derived programs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CAN-2005-2871 Tom Ferris discovered a bug in the IDN hostname handling of Mozilla that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with dashes.

 - CAN-2005-2701

 A buffer overflow allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XBM image file that ends in a large number of spaces instead of the expected end tag.

 - CAN-2005-2702

 Mats Palmgren discovered a buffer overflow in the Unicode string parser that allows a specially crafted Unicode sequence to overflow a buffer and cause arbitrary code to be executed.

 - CAN-2005-2703

 Remote attackers could spoof HTTP headers of XML HTTP requests via XMLHttpRequest and possibly use the client to exploit vulnerabilities in servers or proxies.

 - CAN-2005-2704

 Remote attackers could spoof DOM objects via an XBL control that implements an internal XPCOM interface.

 - CAN-2005-2705

 Georgi Guninski discovered an integer overflow in the JavaScript engine that might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

 - CAN-2005-2706

 Remote attackers could execute JavaScript code with chrome privileges via an about: page such as about:mozilla.

 - CAN-2005-2707

 Remote attackers could spawn windows without user interface components such as the address and status bar that could be used to conduct spoofing or phishing attacks.

 - CAN-2005-2968

 Peter Zelezny discovered that shell metacharacters are not properly escaped when they are passed to a shell script and allow the execution of arbitrary commands, e.g. when a malicious URL is automatically copied from another program into Mozilla as default browser.

Solution

Upgrade the mozilla package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.8-1sarge3.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327366

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329778

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-866

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20063

File Name: debian_DSA-866.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mozilla, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2701, CVE-2005-2702, CVE-2005-2703, CVE-2005-2704, CVE-2005-2705, CVE-2005-2706, CVE-2005-2707, CVE-2005-2871, CVE-2005-2968

CWE: 94

DSA: 866