Mozilla SeaMonkey up to 2.0.2 Web Worker resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla SeaMonkey. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Web Worker. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2010-0160. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla SeaMonkey (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web Worker. 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. CVE summarizes:

The Web Worker functionality in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly handle array data types for posted messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was shared 02/22/2010 (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-0160 since 01/06/2010. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 44648 (CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2010:0112)), 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 118843 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2010:0112)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 9619.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (56360), Tenable (44648), SecurityFocus (BID 38285†), Secunia (SA37242†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-24872†). The entries VDB-51915, VDB-51913, VDB-51912 and VDB-51911 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 44648
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2010:0112)
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OpenVAS ID: 66951
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1999-1 (xulrunner)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: SeaMonkey 1.0.9
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01/06/2010 🔍
02/17/2010 +42 days 🔍
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02/18/2010 +1 days 🔍
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02/22/2010 +4 days 🔍
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03/18/2015 +1850 days 🔍
09/02/2021 +2360 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2010-0160 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-0160
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-51914

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X-Force: 56360
SecurityFocus: 38285 - Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Web Workers Array Data Type Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 37242 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
Vulnerability Center: 24872 - Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Remote Memory Corruption or DoS Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2010-0405

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 09/02/2021 15:18
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (66), 02/21/2017 08:13 (13), 09/02/2021 15:18 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:07A:103

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