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Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4950
Synopsis
The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
Versions of Firefox prior to 3.0.7 are affected by the following security issues :- By exploiting stability bugs in the browser engine, it might be possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote system under certain conditions. (MFSA 2009-07)
- A vulnerability in Mozilla's garbage collection process could be exploited to run arbitrary code on the remote system. (MFSA 2009-08)
- It may be possible for a website to read arbitrary XML data from another domain by using 'nsIRDFService' and a cross-domain redirect. (MFSA 2009-09)
- Vulnerabilities in the PNG libraries used by Mozilla could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the remote system. (MFSA 2009-10)
- Certain invisible characters are decoded before being displayed on the location bar. An attacker may be able to exploit this flaw to spoof the location bar and display a link to a malicious URL. (MFSA 2009-11).
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.7 or higher.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-07.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-08.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-09.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-10.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-11.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 4950
Family: Web Clients
Published: 3/5/2009
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 35778
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
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-2009-0040, CVE-2009-0771, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0773, CVE-2009-0774, CVE-2009-0775, CVE-2009-0776, CVE-2009-0777
BID: 33990