Mozilla Firefox up to 6.0 code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Mozilla Firefox. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2011-3232. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

YARR, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 7.0, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript.

The weakness was released 09/28/2011 by Aki Helin as Bug 653672 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-3232 since 08/19/2011. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful 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). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

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 1.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (56323), SecurityFocus (BID 49850†), Secunia (SA46315†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-49971†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-58780, VDB-58778, VDB-58777 and VDB-58776. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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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 1.5
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11/18/2010 🔍
08/19/2011 +274 days 🔍
09/27/2011 +39 days 🔍
09/28/2011 +1 days 🔍
09/28/2011 +0 days 🔍
10/05/2011 +7 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +1265 days 🔍
05/04/2015 +42 days 🔍
11/20/2021 +2392 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 653672
Researcher: Aki Helin
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-3232 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-3232
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-58781

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SecurityFocus: 49850 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey CVE-2011-3232 YARR Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 46315 - SUSE update for MozillaThunderbird, Highly Critical
Vulnerability Center: 49971 - YARR in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey Remote DoS or Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/20/2021 20:53
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (65), 06/28/2017 06:21 (15), 11/20/2021 20:53 (3)
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