VDB-11048 · CVE-2013-5592 · BID 63405

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird 24.0 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 24.0 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
The advisory summarizes:
Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

The weakness was presented 10/29/2013 by Jesse Ruderman, Christoph Diehl, Vladimir Vukicevic, Gary Kwong, Kannan Vijayan and Carsten Book with Mozilla as Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-93 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with the vendor. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-5592 since 08/26/2013. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 70701 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (81f866ad-41a4-11e3-a4af-0025905a4771)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 166313 (OpenSuSE Security Update for Mozilla Suite (openSUSE-SU-2013:1633-1)).

Upgrading to version 25.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mozilla.org. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (70701). mozilla.org is providing further details. See 11046, 11047, 11049 and 11050 for similar entries.

Affected

  • Firefox 24.0
  • Thunderbird 24.0
  • SeaMonkey 2.21

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.3
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 70701
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (81f866ad-41a4-11e3-a4af-0025905a4771)
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OpenVAS ID: 850541
OpenVAS Name: SuSE Update for Mozilla Suite openSUSE-SU-2013:1633-1 (Mozilla Suite)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox/Thunderbird 25.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-93
Researcher: Jesse Ruderman, Christoph Diehl, Vladimir Vukicevic, Gary Kwong, Kannan Vijayan, Carsten Book
Organization: Mozilla
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-5592 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 42127 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey Remote DoS and Code Execution (CVE-2013-5592), Critical
SecurityFocus: 63405
Secunia: 55489 - Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird / SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 99084

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/31/2013 10:01
Updated: 06/01/2021 14:44
Changes: 10/31/2013 10:01 (53), 01/31/2018 09:55 (35), 06/01/2021 14:44 (2)
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Cache ID: 3:3E4

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