Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird 30.0 Browser Engine memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 30.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Browser Engine. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-1548. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 30.0 (Web Browser). This issue affects some unknown functionality 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 weakness was presented 07/22/2014 by Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Alon Zakai, Bobby Holley, Jonathan Watt, Shu-yu Guo, Steve Fink, Terrence Cole, Gijs Kruitbosch and C?t?lin Badea as MFSA2014-56 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-1548 since 01/16/2014. 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 vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76720 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (978b0f76-122d-11e4-afe3-bc5ff4fb5e7b)), 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 195567 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-2295-1)).

Upgrading to version 31 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 16629.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (94769), Tenable (76720), SecurityFocus (BID 68811†), Secunia (SA59719†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1030619†). bugzilla.mozilla.org is providing further details. See VDB-67222, VDB-67224, VDB-67225 and VDB-67226 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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Status: Unproven

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Nessus ID: 76720
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (978b0f76-122d-11e4-afe3-bc5ff4fb5e7b)
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OpenVAS ID: 803463
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 August14 (Windows)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox/Thunderbird 31
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA2014-56
Researcher: Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Alon Zakai, Bobby Holley, Jonathan Watt, Shu-yu Guo, Steve Fink, Terrence Cole, Gijs Kruitbosch, C?t?lin Badea
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-1548 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-1548
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-67223

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X-Force: 94769 - Mozilla Firefox code execution, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 68811 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird CVE-2014-1547 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 59719 - SUSE update for MozillaFirefox, Highly Critical
SecurityTracker: 1030619 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Deny Service, and Spoof User Interface Elements
Vulnerability Center: 45577 - Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Remote Code Execution via Unspecified Vectors - CVE-2014-1548, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/23/2014 10:21
Updated: 02/09/2022 17:37
Changes: 07/23/2014 10:21 (88), 06/03/2017 07:23 (7), 02/09/2022 17:30 (2), 02/09/2022 17:37 (1)
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