Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird up to 2.0.12 Layout Engine resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird up to 2.0.12 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Layout Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.13, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.9 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the layout engine.

The weakness was published 03/27/2008 by Gregory Fleischer (moz_bug_r_a4) with Mozilla Developers (Website). The advisory is shared for download at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-1236 since 03/10/2008. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 31684 (CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2008:0207)), 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 165678 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Mozilla Firefox (SUSE-SA:2008:019)).

Upgrading to version 1.1.8 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (41445) and Tenable (31684). Similar entries are available at 3645, 38765, 40968 and 41733.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 31684
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2008:0207)
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OpenVAS ID: 60653
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1532-1 (xulrunner)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Gregory Fleischer (moz_bug_r_a4)
Organization: Mozilla Developers
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-1236 (🔍)
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X-Force: 41445
SecurityTracker: 1019695
Vulnerability Center: 18034 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird <2.0.0.13 and SeaMonkey <1.1.9 Privilege Escalation, Medium
SecurityFocus: 28448 - Mozilla Thunderbird/Seamonkey/Firefox 2.0.0.12 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 29391 - Red Hat update for seamonkey, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 43876 - Mozilla Multiple Products ARGB32_image_ARGB32() GIF Handling DoS
Vupen: ADV-2008-0999

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 08/07/2019 20:18
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (93), 08/07/2019 20:18 (3)
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