Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Browser Engine memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox 6.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Browser Engine. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2011-2997. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox 6.0 (Web Browser). This affects an unknown functionality of the component Browser Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 6, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

The weakness was presented 09/28/2011 by Jesse Ruderman as Bug 678818 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-2997 since 08/01/2011. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/20/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 56323 (FreeBSD : Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (1fade8a3-e9e8-11e0-9580-4061862b8c22)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 119622 (Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA-2011-36 through MFSA-2011-45)).

Upgrading to version 1.0.9 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (56323), SecurityFocus (BID 49812†), Secunia (SA46315†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-33351†). See VDB-58781, VDB-58780, VDB-58778 and VDB-58777 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 56323
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (1fade8a3-e9e8-11e0-9580-4061862b8c22)
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OpenVAS ID: 70413
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: firefox
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 1.0.9

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08/01/2011 🔍
09/27/2011 +57 days 🔍
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11/20/2021 +2434 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 678818
Researcher: Jesse Ruderman
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-2997 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-2997
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-58773

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SecurityFocus: 49812 - Mozilla Firefox CVE-2011-2997 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 46315 - SUSE update for MozillaThunderbird, Highly Critical
Vulnerability Center: 33351 - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey Multiple Remote Unspecified Vulnerabilities, Medium

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/20/2021 19:54
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (65), 04/07/2017 18:27 (14), 11/20/2021 19:54 (2)
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