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Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.13/3.5.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5113
Synopsis
The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 3.0.13/3.5.0. Such versions are reportedly potentially affected by the following security issues :- The browser can be fooled into trusting a malicious SSL server certificate with a null character in the host name. (MFSA 2009-42)
- A heap overflow in the code that handles regular expressions in certificate names can lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2009-43)
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox 3.5.0/3.0.13 or later.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 5113
Family: Web Clients
Published: 8/3/2009
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 6.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox
Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2009
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2009