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Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.18 / 3.5.8 / 3.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5342
Synopsis
The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
The remote host is running a version of Mozilla Firefox earlier than 3.0.18, 3.5.8, 3.6. Such versions are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :- Several crashes can result in arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2010-01)
- The implementation of 'Web Workers' contains an error in its handling of array data types when processing posted messages. (MFSA 2010-02)
- The HTML parser incorrectly frees used memory when insufficient space is available to process remaining input. (MFSA 2010-03)
- A cross-site scripting issue due to 'window.dialogArguments' being readable cross-domain. (CVE-2010-04)
- A cross-site scripting issue when using SVG documents and binary Content-Type. (MFSA 2010-05)
- Multiple crashes can result in arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2010-011)
- A cross-site scripting issue when using 'addEventListener' and 'setTimeout' on a wrapped object. (MFSA 2010-12)
- It is possible to corrupt a user's XUL cache. (MFSA 2010-14)
Solution
Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 3.0.18, 3.5.8, 3.6, or later.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-01.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-02.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-03.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-04.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-05.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-11.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-12.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-14.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.18
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox35.html#firefox3.5.8
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 5342
Family: Web Clients
Published: 2/18/2010
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
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: 4.9
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:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox
Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2010
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160, CVE-2010-0162, CVE-2010-0165, CVE-2010-0166, CVE-2010-0167, CVE-2010-0169, CVE-2010-0171
BID: 38285, 38286, 38287, 38288, 38289, 38922, 38939, 38944, 38946