Mozilla Firefox up to 3.5.3 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Mozilla Firefox. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2009-3370. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. 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. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.15, and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, allows remote attackers to read form history by forging mouse and keyboard events that leverage the auto-fill feature to populate form fields, in an attacker-readable form, with history entries.

The weakness was released 10/29/2009 by Paul Stone as Bug 511615 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-3370. 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 scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 42295 (CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2009:1530)), 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 119087 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2009:1530)).

Upgrading to version 3.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (42295), SecurityFocus (BID 36853†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-23959†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-4052, VDB-50808, VDB-50648 and VDB-50647. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 42295
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2009:1530)
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OpenVAS ID: 66146
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1922-1 (xulrunner)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 3.0

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10/27/2009 +33 days 🔍
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03/18/2015 +1955 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 511615
Researcher: Paul Stone
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2009-3370 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-3370
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-50636

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SecurityFocus: 36853 - Mozilla Firefox Form History Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 23959 - Mozilla Firefox Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Read Form History and Keyboard Events, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 08/24/2021 17:58
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (63), 02/16/2017 10:16 (9), 08/24/2021 17:51 (4), 08/24/2021 17:58 (1)
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