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Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.14 / 3.5.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5161

Synopsis

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

Description

The installed version of Mozilla Firefox is earlier than 3.0.14 / 3.5.3. Such versions are potentially affected by multiple issues :

- Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in the browser engine. (MFSA 2009-47)
 - When security modules are added or removed via pkcs11.addmodule or pkcs11.deletemodule, the resulting dialogue was not sufficiently informative which could lead an attacker to entice a victim to install a malicious PKCS11 module. Note that Firefox 3.5.x releases are not affected. (MFSA 2009-38)
 - The columns of a XUL tree element could be manipulated in a particular way which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing to freed memory. (MFSA 2009-49)
 - The default Windows font used to render the locationbar and other text fields was improperly displaying certain Unicode characters with tall line-height. (MFSA 2009-50)
 - The 'BrowserFeedWriter' could be leveraged to run JavaScript code from web content with elevated privileges. (MFSA 2009-51)

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3/3.0.14 or later.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-38.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-44.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-45.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-46.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-47.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5161

Family: Web Clients

Published: 9/10/2009

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 40931, 40930

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3069, CVE-2009-3070, CVE-2009-3071, CVE-2009-3072, CVE-2009-3073, CVE-2009-3074, CVE-2009-3075, CVE-2009-3076, CVE-2009-3077, CVE-2009-3078, CVE-2009-3079

BID: 36343