SuSE 10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (ZYPP Patch Number 3756)

high Nessus Plugin ID 29360

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

This update brings Mozilla Firefox to security update version 2.0.0.4

- Chris Thomas demonstrated that XUL popups opened by web content could be placed outside the boundaries of the content area. This could be used to spoof or hide parts of the browser chrome such as the location bar. (MFSA 2007-17 / CVE-2007-2871)

- Mozilla contributor moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrated that the addEventListener method could be used to inject script into another site in violation of the browser's same-origin policy. This could be used to access or modify private or valuable information from that other site. (MFSA 2007-16 / CVE-2007-2870)

- Nicolas Derouet reported two problems with cookie handling in Mozilla clients. Insufficient length checks could be use to exhaust browser memory and so to crash the browser or at least slow it done by a large degree.
(MFSA 2007-14 / CVE-2007-1362)

The second issue was that the cookie path and name values were not checked for the presence of the delimiter used for internal cookie storage, and if present this confused future interpretation of the cookie data. This is not considered to be exploitable.

- Marcel reported that a malicious web page could perform a denial of service attack against the form autocomplete feature that would persist from session to session until the malicious form data was deleted. Filling a text field with millions of characters and submitting the form will cause the victim's browser to hang for up to several minutes while the form data is read, and this will happen the first time autocomplete is triggered after every browser restart. (MFSA 2007-13 / CVE-2007-2869)

No harm is done to the user's computer, but the frustration caused by the hang could prevent use of Firefox if users don't know how to clear the bad state.

- As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.4 and 1.5.0.12 update releases Mozilla developers fixed many bugs to improve the stability of the product. Some of these crashes that showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. (MFSA 2007-12 / CVE-2007-2867 / CVE-2007-2868)

Without further investigation we cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript, such as large images.

- Incorrect FTP PASV handling could be used by malicious ftp servers to do a rudimentary port scanning of for instance internal networks of the computer the browser is running on. (MFSA 2007-11 / CVE-2007-1562)

Solution

Apply ZYPP patch number 3756.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 29360

File Name: suse_MozillaFirefox-3756.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/13/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1362, CVE-2007-1562, CVE-2007-2867, CVE-2007-2868, CVE-2007-2869, CVE-2007-2870, CVE-2007-2871

CWE: 119, 20, 94

Detections

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