Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird prior 2.0.0.19 Layout Engine resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Layout Engine. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2009-0774. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown part of the component Layout Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3 before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to gczeal, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0773.

The bug was discovered 03/04/2009. The weakness was presented 03/04/2009 by Georgi Guninski (TippingPoint) with Zero Day Initiative (Website). The advisory is shared at redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-0774 since 03/03/2009. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 38891 (CentOS 4 / 5 : thunderbird (CESA-2009:0258)), 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 165640 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Mozilla Firefox 2 (SUSE-SA:2009:023)).

Upgrading to version 2.0.0.19 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 6222.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (49484), Tenable (38891), SecurityFocus (BID 33990†), OSVDB (52446†) and Secunia (SA34145†). See VDB-3935, VDB-46976, VDB-46975 and VDB-46974 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 38891
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : thunderbird (CESA-2009:0258)
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OpenVAS ID: 64417
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1830-1 (icedove)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: redhat.com
Researcher: Georgi Guninski (TippingPoint)
Organization: Zero Day Initiative
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-0774 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-0774
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-46973

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X-Force: 49484
SecurityFocus: 33990 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2009 -07 -08 -09 and -11 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 34145 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 52446 - CVE-2009-0774 - Mozilla - Multiple Products - Denial-Of-Service Issue
SecurityTracker: 1021795
Vulnerability Center: 21202 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Remote Code Execution and DoS Vulnerability, High
Vupen: ADV-2009-0632

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/29/2019 08:43
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (90), 08/29/2019 08:43 (4)
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Cache ID: 216:217:103

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