Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities

[Rhino]

TITLE:
Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20376

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20376/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Firefox 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4227/
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3256/

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting and HTTP response smuggling attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the sandbox protection of JavaScript run via EvalInSandbox can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with escalated privileges by calling the "valueOf()" function on external objects outside of the sandbox.

Successful exploitation requires that the attacker is able to execute JavaScript code inside the EvalInSandbox (e.g. via a Proxy Autoconfig script or a third-party extension using the vulnerable functionality).

2) Some errors in the browser engine can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

3) Two errors in the handling of specially crafted HTTP responses in certain situations can be exploited to cause the browser to process a response as two separate responses from different sites.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary HTML and script in a user's browser session in context of an arbitrary site, but requires that the browser is configured to use a proxy or that the malicious site shares the same IP address as the targeted site.

4) Two errors in the handling of the "View Image" and "Show only this frame" functionalities can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an arbitrary site by e.g. tricking a user into right-clicking and choosing "View Image" on a broken image.

5) An error caused due to persisted XUL attributes in certain situations being associated with an incorrect URL can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with escalated privileges.

6) An error caused due to content-defined setters on an object prototype being called by privileged code in the user interface can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with escalated privileges.

7) An error caused due to an off-by-two array boundary error in the "crypto.signText()" function can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by passing optional Certificate Authority name arguments.

8) An error exists due to Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) data being stripped from documents served in UTF-8 during the conversion to Unicode. This can be exploited to bypass certain HTML and JavaScript filtering mechanisms in web applications using the UTF-8 character encoding.

9) An error in the processing of the addSelectionListener when handling notifications in certain situations can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with escalated privileges.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.0.4.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) moz_bug_r_a4
2) Mozilla Developers
3) Kazuho Oku, Cybozu Labs
4) Paul Nickerson
5) Jonas Sicking, Mozilla
6) Paul Nickerson and moz_bug_r_a4
7) Mikolaj J. Habryn
8) Masatoshi Kimura
9) moz_bug_r_a4

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-31.html
2) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-32.html
3) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-33.html
4) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-34.html
5) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-35.html
6) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-37.html
7) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-38.html
8) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-42.html
9) http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-43.html

[MSGT]

Thanks


I knew it was just a matter of time before they went after firefox.

[DoctorDoom]

The advisory exposes security holes, but whether or not they have been exploited is unsaid. Assholes like instant gratification and maximum impact, and going after IE provides both. Writing exploits for FF, Opera et al isn't rewarding to the buttbreaths, inasmuch as the user base is still fairly small, and the users are as a rule considerably more security-aware and technically savvy than IE folks, who are in large part newbies and appliance users.

[Rhino]

I only posted it because it was deemed highly critical. Sometimes nowadays, they exploit those regardless of platform. That was my last job, and we were seeing more such exploitations outside the normal Microsoft channels that were usually widely exploited. I guess since more people are using alternate browsers now, the bad guys are catching on.

[Suzie]

Thanks, updating mine right now.

[DoctorDoom]

I automatically keep all my browsers current, although I use Opera 99.9% of the time. I'm fetching 1.5.0.4 now.

Y'all don't need a reason for posting it, Brer Rhino. It's always good to have the latest info.

I wonder how long it will be after IE7 is released before the shitheads start attacking it.

[Rhino]

I wonder how long it will be after IE7 is released before the shitheads start attacking it.LOL! That's why I'm never an early adopter.

[Foquet]

You beat me to it! :moo:

Though, as Doc said, most FF holes are easily fixable and in most cases are fixed before Secunia even posts it. I already had my FF updated 3 days ago. :moo: