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openSUSE 10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-3933)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27122

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update brings Mozilla Firefox to security update version 2.0.0.5

Following security problems were fixed :

 - MFSA 2007-18: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

 The usual collection of stability fixes for crashes that look suspicious but haven't been proven to be exploitable.

 25 were in the browser engine, reported by Mozilla developers and community members Bernd Mielke, Boris Zbarsky, David Baron, Daniel Veditz, Jesse Ruderman, Lukas Loehrer, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren, Olli Pettay, Paul Nickerson,and Vladimir Sukhoy (CVE-2007-3734)

 7 were in the JavaScript engine reported by Asaf Romano, Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov (CVE-2007-3735)

 - MFSA 2007-19 / CVE-2007-3736: XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout

 moz_bug_r_a4 reported that scripts could be injected into another site's context by exploiting a timing issue using addEventLstener or setTimeout.

 - MFSA 2007-20 / CVE-2007-3089: frame spoofing

 Ronen Zilberman and Michal Zalewski both reported that it was possible to exploit a timing issue to inject content into about:blank frames in a page.

 - MFSA 2007-21 / CVE-2007-3737: Privilege escalation using an event handler attached to an element not in the document

 Reported by moz_bug_r_a4.

 - MFSA 2007-22 / CVE-2007-3285: File type confusion due to %00 in name

 Ronald van den Heetkamp reported that a filename URL containing %00 (encoded null) can cause Firefox to interpret the file extension differently than the underlying Windows operating system potentially leading to unsafe actions such as running a program.

 - MFSA 2007-23 / CVE-2007-3670: Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer

 Greg MacManus of iDefense and Billy Rios of Verisign independently reported that links containing a quote (') character could be used in Internet Explorer to launch registered URL Protocol handlers with extra command-line parameters. Firefox and Thunderbird are among those which can be launched, and both support a '-chrome' option that could be used to run malware.

 This problem does not affect Linux.

 - MFSA 2007-24 / CVE-2007-3656: unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents

 Michal Zalewski reported that it was possible to bypass the same-origin checks and read from cached (wyciwyg) documents

 - MFSA 2007-25 / CVE-2007-3738: XPCNativeWrapper pollution

 shutdown and moz_bug_r_a4 reported two separate ways to modify an XPCNativeWrapper such that subsequent access by the browser would result in executing user-supplied code.

Solution

Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27122

File Name: suse_MozillaFirefox-3933.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillafirefox-translations

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3089, CVE-2007-3285, CVE-2007-3656, CVE-2007-3670, CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735, CVE-2007-3736, CVE-2007-3737, CVE-2007-3738

CWE: 200, 264, 79