gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml

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<glsa id="200504-18">
  <title>Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    New Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Suite releases fix new security
    vulnerabilities, including memory disclosure and various ways of executing
    JavaScript code with elevated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Mozilla</product>
  <announced>April 19, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>89303</bug>
  <bug>89305</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-client/mozilla-firefox" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="www-client/mozilla" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.7</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="www-client/mozilla-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.7</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite
    and Mozilla Firefox:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>Vladimir V. Perepelitsa reported a memory disclosure bug in
    JavaScript's regular expression string replacement when using an
    anonymous function as the replacement argument (CAN-2005-0989).</li>
    <li>moz_bug_r_a4 discovered that Chrome UI code was overly trusting DOM
    nodes from the content window, allowing privilege escalation via DOM
    property overrides.</li>
    <li>Michael Krax reported a possibility to run JavaScript code with
    elevated privileges through the use of javascript: favicons.</li>
    <li>Michael Krax also discovered that malicious Search plugins could
    run JavaScript in the context of the displayed page or stealthily
    replace existing search plugins.</li>
    <li>shutdown discovered a technique to pollute the global scope of a
    window in a way that persists from page to page.</li>
    <li>Doron Rosenberg discovered a possibility to run JavaScript with
    elevated privileges when the user asks to "Show" a blocked popup that
    contains a JavaScript URL.</li>
    <li>Finally, Georgi Guninski reported missing Install object instance
    checks in the native implementations of XPInstall-related JavaScript
    objects.</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
    The following Firefox-specific vulnerabilities have also been
    discovered:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>Kohei Yoshino discovered a new way to abuse the sidebar panel to
    execute JavaScript with elevated privileges.</li>
    <li>Omar Khan reported that the Plugin Finder Service can be tricked to
    open javascript: URLs with elevated privileges.</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    The various JavaScript execution with elevated privileges issues can be
    exploited by a remote attacker to install malicious code or steal data.
    The memory disclosure issue can be used to reveal potentially sensitive
    information. Finally, the cache pollution issue and search plugin abuse
    can be leveraged in cross-site-scripting attacks.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.3&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Mozilla Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.3&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Mozilla Suite users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-client/mozilla-1.7.7&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All Mozilla Suite binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-client/mozilla-bin-1.7.7&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html">Mozilla Security Advisories</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0989">CAN-2005-0989</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1153">CVE-2005-1153</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1154">CVE-2005-1154</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1155">CVE-2005-1155</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1156">CVE-2005-1156</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1159">CVE-2005-1159</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1160">CVE-2005-1160</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:55:50 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:17:09 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>