Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Browser Engine memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Mozilla Firefox 4.0. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Browser Engine. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2011-0079. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 4.0 (Web Browser) and classified as very critical. This issue affects some unknown processing 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. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 4.x before 4.0.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to gfx/layers/d3d10/ReadbackManagerD3D10.cpp and unknown other vectors.

The weakness was released 05/07/2011 by Jesse Ruderman (Nils) as Bug 639885 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-0079. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/06/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 63402 (GLSA-201301-01 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities (BEAST)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165559 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Mozilla (SUSE-SA:2011:022)).

Upgrading to version 4.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (67184), Tenable (63402), SecurityFocus (BID 47657†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-31266†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-5327, VDB-36797, VDB-36612 and VDB-37141. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 63402
Nessus Name: GLSA-201301-01 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities (BEAST)
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OpenVAS ID: 69590
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 4.0

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12/21/2010 🔍
04/28/2011 +128 days 🔍
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05/07/2011 +6 days 🔍
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03/23/2015 +1416 days 🔍
11/06/2021 +2420 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 639885
Researcher: Jesse Ruderman (Nils)
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-0079 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-0079
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-57371

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X-Force: 67184
SecurityFocus: 47657 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey CVE-2011-0079 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 31266 - Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2011-0079), Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/06/2021 04:14
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (65), 03/22/2017 09:29 (10), 11/06/2021 04:05 (3), 11/06/2021 04:14 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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