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Firefox < 10.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)
high Nessus Plugin ID 57773
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Synopsis
The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is potentially affected by several vulnerabilities.Description
The installed version of Firefox 9.x is potentially affected by the following security issues :- A use-after-free error exists related to removed nsDOMAttribute child nodes.(CVE-2011-3659)
- Various memory safety issues exist. (CVE-2012-0442, CVE-2012-0443)
- Memory corruption errors exist related to the decoding of Ogg Vorbis files and processing of malformed XSLT stylesheets. (CVE-2012-0444, CVE-2012-0449)
- The HTML5 frame navigation policy can be violated by allowing an attacker to replace a sub-frame in another domain's document. (CVE-2012-0445)
- Scripts in frames are able to bypass security restrictions in XPConnect. This bypass can allow malicious websites to carry out cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-0446)
- An information disclosure issue exists when uninitialized memory is used as padding when encoding icon images. (CVE-2012-0447)
- Exported 'Firefox Sync' key permissions are not correct. (CVE-2012-0450)
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox 10.0 or later.See Also
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/browsers.html#security-nav
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-01/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-03/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-04/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-05/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-06/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-07/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-08/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-09/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 57773
File Name: macosx_firefox_10_0.nasl
Version: 1.24
Type: local
Agent: macosx
Family: MacOS X Local Security Checks
Published: 2/1/2012
Updated: 7/14/2018
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 8.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox
Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Installed
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2012
Exploitable With
CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)
Metasploit (Firefox 8/9 AttributeChildRemoved() Use-After-Free)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-3659, CVE-2012-0442, CVE-2012-0443, CVE-2012-0444, CVE-2012-0445, CVE-2012-0446, CVE-2012-0447, CVE-2012-0449, CVE-2012-0450