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GLSA-200712-21 : Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 29818

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-200712-21 (Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov reported that the jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey does not properly check MIME types (CVE-2007-5947). Gregory Fleischer reported that the window.location property can be used to generate a fake HTTP Referer (CVE-2007-5960). Multiple memory errors have also been reported (CVE-2007-5959).
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could possibly exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser and conduct Cross-Site-Scripting or Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11' All Mozilla Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.11' All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/seamonkey-1.1.7' All SeaMonkey binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1.7'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200712-21

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 29818

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200712-21.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Published: 12/31/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5947, CVE-2007-5959, CVE-2007-5960

BID: 26385, 26589, 26593

CWE: 22, 79

GLSA: 200712-21