Mozilla Firefox 26 SeaMonkey memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 26 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-1478. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox 26 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey. 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:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the MPostWriteBarrier class in js/src/jit/MIR.h and stack alignment in js/src/jit/AsmJS.cpp in OdinMonkey, and unknown other vectors.

The weakness was published 02/04/2014 by Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Andrew Sutherland, Byron Campen, Nicholas Nethercote, Paul Adenot, David Baron, Julian Seward and Dan Gohman as MFSA2014-01 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at mozilla.org. The public release has been coordinated with the vendor. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-1478 since 01/16/2014. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 72312 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (1753f0ff-8dd5-11e3-9b45-b4b52fce4ce8)), 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 195432 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Regression (USN-2102-2)).

Upgrading to version 27 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 (72312), SecurityFocus (BID 65324†), OSVDB (102865†), Secunia (SA56706†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-43139†). Similar entries are available at VDB-12168, VDB-12169, VDB-12171 and VDB-12172. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

  • Mozilla Firefox 26
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 24.2
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.23

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 72312
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (1753f0ff-8dd5-11e3-9b45-b4b52fce4ce8)
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OpenVAS ID: 850569
OpenVAS Name: SuSE Update for Mozilla openSUSE-SU-2014:0212-1 (Mozilla)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 27

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA2014-01
Researcher: Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, Andrew Sutherland, Byron Campen, Nicholas Nethercote, Paul Adenot, David Baron, Julian Seward, Dan Gohman
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-1478 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-1478
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-12170

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X-Force: 90900
SecurityFocus: 65324 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey CVE-2014-1478 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 56706 - Cyberfox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 102865
SecurityTracker: 1029717
Vulnerability Center: 43139 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service (CVE-2014-1478), Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 02/06/2014 10:26
Updated: 06/09/2021 01:15
Changes: 02/06/2014 10:26 (82), 01/31/2018 09:55 (5), 06/09/2021 01:08 (3), 06/09/2021 01:15 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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