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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). It has been declared as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Browser Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Unspecified vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.17 and 4.x before 4.0.1, and Thunderbird 3.1.x before 3.1.10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
The weakness was presented 05/07/2011 as Bug 645289 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2011-0081. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/06/2021).
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 53598 (CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2011:0471)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 119220 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2011:0471)).
Upgrading to version 4.0 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (67185), Tenable (53598), SecurityFocus (BID 47653†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-31268†). See VDB-57372, VDB-57370, VDB-57369 and VDB-57367 for similar entries.
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 53598
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2011:0471)
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OpenVAS ID: 69570
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2227-1 (iceape)
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Upgrade: Firefox 4.0
Timeline
12/21/2010 🔍04/28/2011 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: Bug 645289
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-0081 (🔍)
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X-Force: 67185
SecurityFocus: 47653 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey HTML Content (CVE-2011-0081) Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 31268 - Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird HTML Related Memory Corruption Vulnerability (1), Medium
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Entry
Created: 03/23/2015 04:50 PMUpdated: 11/06/2021 05:05 AM
Changes: 03/23/2015 04:50 PM (65), 03/22/2017 09:30 AM (8), 11/06/2021 04:53 AM (3), 11/06/2021 05:05 AM (1)
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