Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.2 Search Plugin memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.2 (Web Browser). It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code of the component Search Plugin. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

The bug was discovered 04/16/2005. The weakness was disclosed 05/02/2005 by Juha-Matti Laurio (mikx) as Bug 290037 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-1157 since 04/18/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21929 (CentOS 4 : Firefox (CESA-2005:383)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117970 (CentOS Security Update for Mozilla (CESA-2005:386)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 31016.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20125) and Tenable (21929). The entries 1387, 1396, 1391 and 1405 are pretty similar.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Nessus ID: 21929
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : Firefox (CESA-2005:383)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 290037
Researcher: Juha-Matti Laurio (mikx)
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-1157 (🔍)
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X-Force: 20125
Vulnerability Center: 7691 - Code Execution in Mozilla Firefox < 1.0.3, Netscape and Mozilla Suite < 1.7.7 via Replacing Plugins, High
SecurityFocus: 13211 - Mozilla Suite And Firefox Search Plug-In Remote Script Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 14938 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 15687 - Mozilla plug-in cross-site scripting

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Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 05/31/2019 17:57
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (81), 05/31/2019 17:57 (5)
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