Mozilla Firefox up to 0.9.2 Certificate document.close race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 0.9.2 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function document.close of the component Certificate Handler. The manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2004-0761. The attack may be initiated remotely. In addition, an exploit is available. It is advised to disable the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 0.9.2 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function document.close of the component Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, allow remote attackers to use certain redirect sequences to spoof the security lock icon that makes a web page appear to be encrypted.

The bug was discovered 08/03/2004. The weakness was presented 07/26/2004 by Emmanouel Kellinis with Cipher.org (Website). The advisory is shared at cipher.org.uk. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-0761 since 08/02/2004. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a exploit are known.

The exploit is available at cipher.org.uk. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 19152 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- security icon spoofing (e9f9d232-0cb2-11d9-8a8a-000c41e2cdad)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115047 (Sun Solaris Mozilla Multiple Vulnerabilities).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at mozilla.com. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16871), Tenable (19152), SecurityFocus (BID 10880†), OSVDB (8308†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-7541†). news.com.com is providing further details. See VDB-744, VDB-759, VDB-774 and VDB-775 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: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 19152
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- security icon spoofing (e9f9d232-0cb2-11d9-8a8a-000c41e2cdad)
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OpenVAS ID: 53919
OpenVAS Name: Slackware Advisory SSA:2004-223-01 Mozilla
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Recommended: Disable
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Patch: mozilla.com

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07/26/2004 🔍
08/02/2004 +7 days 🔍
08/03/2004 +1 days 🔍
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08/05/2004 +2 days 🔍
08/18/2004 +13 days 🔍
08/18/2004 +0 days 🔍
09/22/2004 +35 days 🔍
04/11/2005 +201 days 🔍
07/13/2005 +93 days 🔍
06/29/2019 +5099 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: cipher.org.uk
Researcher: Emmanouel Kellinis
Organization: Cipher.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2004-0761 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0761
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-773

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X-Force: 16871
SecurityFocus: 10880 - Mozilla SSL Redirect Spoofing Vulnerability
OSVDB: 8308 - CVE-2004-0761 - Mozilla - Multiple Products - Spoofing Issue
SecuriTeam: securiteam.com
Vulnerability Center: 7541 - Mozilla Allows Remote Attacker Spoofing of the Security Lock Icon, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/03/2004 10:36
Updated: 06/29/2019 06:20
Changes: 08/03/2004 10:36 (94), 06/29/2019 06:20 (4)
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Cache ID: 216:A8F:103

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