Detections
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Mozilla Firefox < 10.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6306
Synopsis
The remote host has a web browser installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
Versions of Firefox prior to 10.0 are affected by the following security issues :- A use-after-free error exists related to removed 'nsDOMAttribute' child nodes. (CVE-2011-3659)
- Various memory safety issues exist. (CVE-2012-0442, CVE-2012-0443)
- Memory corruption errors exist related to the decoding of Ogg Vorbis files and processing of malformed XSLT stylesheets. (CVE-2012-0444, CVE-2012-0449)
- The HTML5 frame navigation policy can be violated by allowing an attacker to replace a sub-frame in another domain's document. (CVE-2012-0445)
- Scripts in frames are able to bypass security restrictions in XPConnect. This bypass can allow malicious web sites to carry out cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-0446)
- An information disclosure issue exists when uninitialized memory is used as padding when encoding icon images. (CVE-2012-0447)
- If a user chooses to export their Firefox Sync key the 'Firefox Recover Key.html' file is saved with incorrect permissions, making the file contents potentially readable by other users. Note that this issue only affects Firefox on Linux and Mac OS X systems. (CVE-2012-0450)
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox 10.0 or later.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html#firefox9
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-01.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-03.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-04.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-05.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-06.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-07.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-08.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-09.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 6306
Family: Web Clients
Published: 2/7/2012
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 6.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox
Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2012
Exploitable With
CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)
Metasploit (Firefox 8/9 AttributeChildRemoved() Use-After-Free)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-3659, CVE-2012-0442, CVE-2012-0443, CVE-2012-0444, CVE-2012-0445, CVE-2012-0446, CVE-2012-0447, CVE-2012-0449, CVE-2012-0450