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Mozilla Firefox 3.x < 3.0.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4793

Synopsis

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

Description

Versions of Firefox 3.x prior to 3.0.5 are affected by the following security issues :

- There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption. (MFSA 2008-60)
 - XBL bindings can be used to read data from other domains. (MFSA 2008-61)
 - The feed preview still allows for JavaScript privilege escalation. (MFSA 2008-62)
 - Sensitive data may be disclosed in an XHR response when an XMLHttpRequest is made to a same-origin resource, which 302 redirects to a resource in a different domain. (MFSA 2008-64)
 - A website may be able to access a limited amount of data from a different domain by loading a same-domain JavaScript URL which redirects to an off-domain target resource containing data that is not parsable as JavaScript. (MFSA 2008-65)
 - Errors arise when parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters. (MFSA 2008-66)
 - An escaped null byte is ignored by the CSS parser and treated as if it was not present in the CSS input string. (MFSA 2008-67)
 - XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation are possible. (MFSA 2008-68)
 - XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore may allow for violating the browser's same-origin policy and performing an XSS attack or running arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges. (MFSA 2008-69)
 - A denial of service issue when the application handles a maliciously crafted webpage containing a 'HTMLSelectElement' object with a large length attribute.

Solution

Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.5 or higher.

See Also

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504969/100/0/threaded

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-64.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-65.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-67.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-68.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-69.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?9e442733

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4793

Family: Web Clients

Published: 12/17/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 35218, 35219

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5501, CVE-2008-5502, CVE-2008-5503, CVE-2008-5504, CVE-2008-5505, CVE-2008-5506, CVE-2008-5507, CVE-2008-5508, CVE-2008-5510, CVE-2008-5511, CVE-2008-5512, CVE-2008-5513, CVE-2009-1692, CVE-2009-2535

BID: 35446, 32882, 32878