Mozilla Firefox up to 0.9.3 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 0.8/0.9/0.9.1/0.9.2/0.9.3. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2005-0147. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 0.8/0.9/0.9.1/0.9.2/0.9.3 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Firefox before 1.0 and Mozilla before 1.7.5, when configured to use a proxy, respond to 407 proxy auth requests from arbitrary servers, which allows remote attackers to steal NTLM or SPNEGO credentials.

The bug was discovered 01/31/2005. The weakness was presented 05/02/2005 by Jesse Ruderman (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at xforce.iss.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-0147 since 01/25/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 15712 (Firefox < 1.0.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 1.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 9145.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (19174), Tenable (15712), SecurityFocus (BID 12407†), OSVDB (13338†) and Secunia (SA14017†). See VDB-24104, VDB-23952, VDB-23865 and VDB-24324 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: 7.0

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 15712
Nessus Name: Firefox < 1.0.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0
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Timelineinfo

11/09/2004 🔍
11/13/2004 +4 days 🔍
01/25/2005 +73 days 🔍
01/31/2005 +6 days 🔍
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04/03/2005 +62 days 🔍
05/02/2005 +29 days 🔍
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03/10/2015 +3599 days 🔍
06/06/2019 +1549 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Jesse Ruderman
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-0147 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0147
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24323

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X-Force: 19174
SecurityFocus: 12407 - Multiple Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 14017
OSVDB: 13338 - CVE-2005-0147 - Mozilla And Firefox - Information Disclosure Issue
Vulnerability Center: 7476 - Mozilla Browser and Firefox Allow Obtaining Information via Handling of Proxy Requests, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 06/06/2019 06:30
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (70), 06/06/2019 06:30 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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