Mozilla Firefox 12.0 NVIDIA Graphic Driver memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 12.0 (Web Browser). It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown processing of the component NVIDIA Graphic Driver. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Google Chrome before 19.0.1084.46 on Linux does not properly mitigate an unspecified flaw in an NVIDIA driver, which has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: see CVE-2012-3105 for the related MFSA 2012-34 issue in Mozilla products.

The weakness was disclosed 06/05/2012 by Ken Russell (psaldorn) with Google Inc. as 2012-34 as confirmed knowledge base article (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with Mozilla. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-3101 since 08/09/2011. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/25/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 74655 (openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / MozillaThunderbird / mozilla-nss / etc (openSUSE-SU-2012:0760-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120275 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2012:0710)).

Upgrading to version 13.0 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 (75606) and Tenable (74655). The entries 5400, 5401, 5402 and 5403 are pretty similar.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 74655
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / MozillaThunderbird / mozilla-nss / etc (openSUSE-SU-2012:0760-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 71541
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 13.0

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05/15/2012 +280 days 🔍
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05/21/2012 +5 days 🔍
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06/08/2012 +1 days 🔍
06/13/2014 +735 days 🔍
03/25/2021 +2477 days 🔍

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Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: 2012-34
Researcher: Ken Russell (psaldorn)
Organization: Google Inc.
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2011-3101 (🔍)
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X-Force: 75606
SecurityTracker: 1027067 - Google Chrome Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vulnerability Center: 35111 - Google Chrome and Mozilla Browsers on Linux NVIDIA Driver Unspecified Remote Vulnerability, Critical
SecurityFocus: 53540 - Google Chrome Prior to 19 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 49366 - Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird / SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 82668

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/08/2012 13:04
Updated: 03/25/2021 09:32
Changes: 06/08/2012 13:04 (78), 01/31/2018 09:54 (15), 03/25/2021 09:32 (2)
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