FreeBSD : firefox -- denial of service vulnerability (e2476979-da74-11da-a67b-0013d4a4a40e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21523

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports for deleted object reference when designMode='on'

Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes that were discovered to ultimately stem from the same root cause : attempting to use a deleted controller context when designMode was turned on. This generally results in crashing the browser, but in theory references to deleted objects can be abused to run malicious code.

'splices' reported the same crash at the fan site MozillaZine and on Bugtraq, incorrectly describing it as a buffer overflow.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21523

File Name: freebsd_pkg_e2476979da7411daa67b0013d4a4a40e.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:firefox, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-firefox, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1993

Detections

Analytics