Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0.2 Finish resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0.2 (Web Browser). It has been classified as critical. This affects the function nsOverflowContinuationTracker::Finish. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsOverflowContinuationTracker::Finish function in Mozilla Firefox before 19.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.3, Thunderbird before 17.0.3, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.16 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a crafted document that uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) -moz-column-* properties.

The weakness was presented 02/19/2013 by Abhishek Arya (Inferno) with Google Chrome Security Team as MFSA 2013-28 as confirmed advisory (Mozilla Blog). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with Mozilla. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2013-0780 since 01/02/2013. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a private exploit are known.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 64692 (CentOS 5 / 6 : devhelp / firefox / libproxy / xulrunner / yelp (CESA-2013:0271)), 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 120882 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2013:0271)).

Upgrading to version 19.0 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 Tenable (64692), SecurityFocus (BID 58030†), OSVDB (90430†), Secunia (SA52240†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1028162†). See VDB-7761, VDB-7762, VDB-7763 and VDB-7764 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.0

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Private
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 64692
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 / 6 : devhelp / firefox / libproxy / xulrunner / yelp (CESA-2013:0271)
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OpenVAS ID: 892699
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2699-1 (iceweasel - several vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 19.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2013-28
Researcher: Abhishek Arya (Inferno)
Organization: Google Chrome Security Team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-0780 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0780
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7773

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SecurityFocus: 58030 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2013-21 through -28 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 52240 - Ubuntu update for firefox, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 90430
SecurityTracker: 1028162 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information
Vulnerability Center: 38492 - Mozilla Web Browsers nsOverflowContinuationTracker::Finish Function Allows Remote DoS\\Code Execution, Medium

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

Created: 02/21/2013 03:42 PM
Updated: 05/05/2021 12:34 PM
Changes: 02/21/2013 03:42 PM (87), 04/24/2017 08:04 PM (5), 05/05/2021 12:34 PM (3)
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