Mozilla Firefox prior 1.0 CoreGraphics numeric error

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component CoreGraphics. This manipulation causes numeric error. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2009-2468. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component CoreGraphics. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a numeric error vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-189. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Integer overflow in Apple CoreGraphics, as used in Safari before 4.0.3, Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long text run that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during font glyph rendering, a related issue to CVE-2009-1194.

The weakness was disclosed 07/22/2009 by Peter Van der Beken (moz_bug_r_a4) with Martijn Wargers as Bug 480134 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2009-2468 since 07/15/2009. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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 43769 (CentOS 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:1162)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116528 (Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (MFSA 2009-34, MFSA 2009-35, MFSA 2009-36, MFSA 2009-37, MFSA 2009-39, MFSA 2009-40)).

Upgrading to version 1.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 8756.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (51905), Tenable (43769), SecurityFocus (BID 35758†), Secunia (SA35914†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1022717†). The entries VDB-48108, VDB-49258, VDB-49120 and VDB-49119 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Numeric error
CWE: CWE-189
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 43769
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 : firefox (CESA-2009:1162)
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OpenVAS ID: 102028
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 480134
Researcher: Peter Van der Beken (moz_bug_r_a4)
Organization: Martijn Wargers
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-2468 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-2468
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-49117
X-Force: 51905
SecurityFocus: 35758 - RETIRED: Mozilla Firefox MFSA 2009-34, -35, -36, -37, -39, -40 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 35914 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
SecurityTracker: 1022717 - Apple Safari Buffer Overflows Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vulnerability Center: 22956 - CoreGraphics in Apple Mac OS X as in Mozilla Firefox < 3.0.12 Integer Overflow Vulnerability, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2009-1972

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Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 08/12/2021 19:53
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (67), 02/12/2017 12:51 (20), 08/12/2021 19:53 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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