Mozilla Firefox up to 6.0 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox before 7.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unspecified WebGL test case that triggers a memory-allocation error and a resulting out-of-bounds write operation.

The weakness was presented 09/28/2011 by Ben Hawkes as Bug 682335 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-3003 since 08/01/2011. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/20/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 56323 (FreeBSD : Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (1fade8a3-e9e8-11e0-9580-4061862b8c22)), 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 119622 (Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA-2011-36 through MFSA-2011-45)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (56323). See 58781, 58780, 58777 and 58776 for similar entries.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 56323
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (1fade8a3-e9e8-11e0-9580-4061862b8c22)
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OpenVAS ID: 70413
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.9

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 682335
Researcher: Ben Hawkes
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-3003 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 33354 - Mozilla Firefox <7.0 and SeaMonkey <2.4 Remote DoS or Code Execution Vulnerability via WebGL Test, Medium
SecurityFocus: 49847 - Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey CVE-2011-3003 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/20/2021 20:31
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (63), 04/02/2017 14:05 (11), 11/20/2021 20:31 (2)
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