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Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4691

Synopsis

The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

Versions of Firefox 3.x prior to 3.0.2 are affected by various security issues :

- An attacker can cause the content window to move while the mouse is being clicked, causing an item to be dragged rather than clicked-on (MFSA 2008-40).
 - Privilege escalation is possible via 'XPCnativeWrapper' pollution (MFSA 2008-41).
 - There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2008-42).
 - Certain BOM characters and low surrogate characters, if HTML-escaped, are stripped from JavaScript code before it is executed, which could allow for cross-site scripting attacks (MFSA 2008-43).
 - The 'resource: ' protocol allows directory traversal on Linux when using URL-encoded slashes, and it can by used to bypass restrictions on local HTML files (MFSA 2008-44).

Solution

Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.2 or higher.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-50.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-40.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-41.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-44.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4691

Family: Web Clients

Published: 9/24/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 34267

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-3836, CVE-2008-3837, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062, CVE-2008-4063, CVE-2008-4064, CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068, CVE-2008-4069

BID: 31346