Mozilla Firefox up to 3.0.8 input validation

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 3.0.8 (Web Browser). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 and earlier 3.0.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.10 and earlier are also affected.

The bug was discovered 03/30/2009. The weakness was released 04/02/2009 as Bug 485941 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2009-1232 since 04/02/2009. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (49521) and Exploit-DB (8306).

Productinfo

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Web Browser

Vendor

Mozilla

Name

Firefox

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License

open-source

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Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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OpenVAS ID: 800390
OpenVAS Name: Firefox XUL Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 485941
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2009-1232 (🔍)
X-Force: 49521
Vulnerability Center: 21570 - Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Through 3.0.8 XUL Parser Remote DoS Vulnerability via XML Document, Medium
SecurityFocus: 34522 - Mozilla Firefox XUL Parser Start Tags Denial of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 53230 - Mozilla - Firefox - XUL Parser Start Tags Denial of Service Issue

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 09/01/2019 16:09
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (68), 09/01/2019 16:09 (4)
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