Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities Mozilla Suite and Firefox are vulnerable to multiple issues, including some that might be exploited to execute arbitrary code. mozilla September 18, 2005 September 29, 2005: 02 105396 remote 1.0.7-r2 1.0.7-r2 1.7.12-r2 1.7.12-r2 1.0.7 1.0.7 1.7.12 1.7.12 1.7.12 1.7.12

The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a mail and news reader. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from the Mozilla project. Gecko is the layout engine used in both products.

The Mozilla Suite and Firefox are both vulnerable to the following issues:

Tom Ferris reported a heap overflow in IDN-enabled browsers with malicious Host: headers (CAN-2005-2871).
"jackerror" discovered a heap overrun in XBM image processing (CAN-2005-2701).
Mats Palmgren reported a potentially exploitable stack corruption using specific Unicode sequences (CAN-2005-2702).
Georgi Guninski discovered an integer overflow in the JavaScript engine (CAN-2005-2705)
Other issues ranging from DOM object spoofing to request header spoofing were also found and fixed in the latest versions (CAN-2005-2703, CAN-2005-2704, CAN-2005-2706, CAN-2005-2707).

The Gecko engine in itself is also affected by some of these issues and has been updated as well.

A remote attacker could setup a malicious site and entice a victim to visit it, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution with the victim's privileges or facilitated spoofing of known websites.

There is no known workaround for all the issues.

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2"

All Mozilla Suite users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2"

All Mozilla Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.7"

All Mozilla Suite binary users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-bin-1.7.12"

All Gecko library users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7.12"

CAN-2005-2701 CAN-2005-2702 CAN-2005-2703 CAN-2005-2704 CAN-2005-2705 CAN-2005-2706 CAN-2005-2707 CAN-2005-2871 Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories koon koon