Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.6 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.6. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2005-3089. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 1.0.6 (Web Browser). Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Firefox 1.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an eval statement. NOTE: it is not clear whether an untrusted party has any role in triggering this issue, so it might not be a vulnerability.

The bug was discovered 09/21/2005. The weakness was disclosed 09/22/2005 (Website). The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-3089 since 09/28/2005. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21963 (CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2005:785)), 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 117845 (CentOS Security Update for Firefox (CESA-2005:785)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 hours after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (22371), Tenable (21963), SecurityFocus (BID 14924†), OSVDB (19615†) and Secunia (SA16977†). The entries VDB-1025, VDB-26406, VDB-26405 and VDB-26404 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 21963
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2005:785)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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09/21/2005 🔍
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09/22/2005 +1 days 🔍
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10/02/2005 +3 days 🔍
07/05/2006 +276 days 🔍
03/11/2015 +3171 days 🔍
06/09/2019 +1551 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: bugzilla.mozilla.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-3089 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-3089
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-26442

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X-Force: 22371
SecurityFocus: 14924 - Multiple Browser Proxy Auto-Config Script Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 16977 - SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 19615 - Multiple Browser Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) eval Statement DoS
SecurityTracker: 1014949
Vulnerability Center: 9305 - Firefox DoS via Eval Statement Used by the PAC Script, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/09/2019 20:45
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (72), 06/09/2019 20:45 (10)
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Cache ID: 216:799:103

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