Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.2 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.2. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-1159. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.2 (Web Browser). It has been rated as 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:

The native implementations of InstallTrigger and other functions in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 do not properly verify the types of objects being accessed, which causes the Javascript interpreter to continue execution at the wrong memory address, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by passing objects of the wrong type.

The bug was discovered 04/16/2005. The weakness was shared 05/02/2005 by Juha-Matti Laurio as Bug 290162 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-1159 since 04/18/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21929 (CentOS 4 : Firefox (CESA-2005:383)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117970 (CentOS Security Update for Mozilla (CESA-2005:386)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.3 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 31016.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (22598), Tenable (21929), SecurityFocus (BID 13232†), OSVDB (15689†) and Secunia (SA14992†). The entries VDB-1326, VDB-1387, VDB-1396 and VDB-1391 are related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 21929
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : Firefox (CESA-2005:383)
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OpenVAS ID: 55162
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 781-1 (mozilla-thunderbird)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.3
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 290162
Researcher: Juha-Matti Laurio
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2005-1159 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-1159
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24884

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X-Force: 22598
SecurityFocus: 13232 - Mozilla Suite And Firefox XPInstall JavaScript Object Instance Validation Vulnerability
Secunia: 14992 - Mozilla Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 15689 - Mozilla - Firefox - XPInstall JavaScript - Object Instance Validation
SecurityTracker: 1013742
Vulnerability Center: 7693 - Code Execution in Mozilla Firefox < 1.0.3, Netscape 7.2 and Mozilla Suite < 1.7.7 via InstallTrigger, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 05/31/2019 18:07
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (81), 05/31/2019 18:07 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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