Mozilla Firefox up to 4.0 Browser Engine memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Browser Engine. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-0070. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser) and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Browser Engine. 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, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.19, 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and 4.x before 4.0.1; Thunderbird before 3.1.10; and SeaMonkey before 2.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0069.

The weakness was disclosed 05/07/2011 by Ian Beer as Bug 645565 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-0070. 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. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/06/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 68265 (Oracle Linux 6 : thunderbird (ELSA-2011-0475)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 119220 (Red Hat Update for Xulrunner Firefox (RHSA-2011:0471)).

Upgrading to version 1.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (67187), Tenable (68265), SecurityFocus (BID 47654†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-31267†). The entries VDB-57373, VDB-57372, VDB-57370 and VDB-57369 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.5

VulDB Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Temp Score: 9.5
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 68265
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 6 : thunderbird (ELSA-2011-0475)
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OpenVAS ID: 69570
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2227-1 (iceape)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.5

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12/21/2010 🔍
04/28/2011 +128 days 🔍
04/28/2011 +0 days 🔍
05/01/2011 +3 days 🔍
05/07/2011 +6 days 🔍
05/07/2011 +0 days 🔍
07/12/2013 +797 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +619 days 🔍
11/06/2021 +2420 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 645565
Researcher: Ian Beer
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-0070 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-0070
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-57362

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X-Force: 67187
SecurityFocus: 47654 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Double Free Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 31267 - Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird Double-Free Condition Allows Memory Corruption, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/06/2021 02:00
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (67), 03/22/2017 09:30 (9), 11/06/2021 01:52 (3), 11/06/2021 02:00 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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