Mozilla Firefox up to 8.0 OGG Video resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 8.0 (Web Browser). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component OGG Video Handler. The manipulation with the input value <video>... leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 8.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an Ogg VIDEO element that is not properly handled after scaling.

The weakness was presented 12/20/2011 as MFSA2011-58 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with the vendor. This vulnerability was named CVE-2011-3665 since 09/23/2011. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 57355 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (e3ff776b-2ba6-11e1-93c6-0011856a6e37)), 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 165277 (SUSE Security Update for Mozilla Firefox (openSUSE-SU-2012:0039-2)).

Upgrading to version 9.0 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 (71913) and Tenable (57355). See 4495, 4494, 4493 and 4496 for similar entries.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Status: Unproven

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Nessus ID: 57355
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (e3ff776b-2ba6-11e1-93c6-0011856a6e37)
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OpenVAS ID: 70588
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Upgrade: Firefox 9.0

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Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA2011-58
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CVE: CVE-2011-3665 (🔍)
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X-Force: 71913 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey OGG denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityTracker: 1026445 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Permit Remote Code Execution and Keystroke Detection
Vulnerability Center: 34231 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Remote DoS via the OggVIDEO Element, Medium
SecurityFocus: 51134 - Mozilla Firefox/SeaMonkey/Thunderbird CVE-2011-3665 Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 47302 - Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 77956

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/21/2012 01:00
Updated: 03/20/2021 10:09
Changes: 01/21/2012 01:00 (82), 01/31/2018 09:53 (10), 03/20/2021 10:09 (2)
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