Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0.2 CommonPrint resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0.2. It has been classified as critical. The affected element is the function nsPrintEngine::CommonPrint. Performing a manipulation results in resource management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2013-0781. Additionally, an exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0.2 (Web Browser). This affects the function nsPrintEngine::CommonPrint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsPrintEngine::CommonPrint function in Mozilla Firefox before 19.0, Thunderbird before 17.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.16 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was released 02/19/2013 by Abhishek Arya (Inferno) with Google Chrome Security Team as MFSA 2013-28 as confirmed advisory (Mozilla Blog). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated with Mozilla. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2013-0781 since 01/02/2013. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a private exploit are known.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 70183 (GLSA-201309-23 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities), 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 166191 (SUSE Security Update for MozillaFirefox 19 (openSUSE-SU-2013:0323-1)).

Upgrading to version 19.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (70183), SecurityFocus (BID 58030†), OSVDB (90418†), Secunia (SA52240†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1028162†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-7762, VDB-7763, VDB-7764 and VDB-7765. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Private
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 70183
Nessus Name: GLSA-201309-23 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 803423
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox ESR Multiple Vulnerabilities -01 Feb13 (Mac OS X)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 19.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2013-28
Researcher: Abhishek Arya (Inferno)
Organization: Google Chrome Security Team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-0781 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0781
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7761

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SecurityFocus: 58030 - Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2013-21 through -28 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 52240 - Ubuntu update for firefox, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 90418
SecurityTracker: 1028162 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information
Vulnerability Center: 38493 - Mozilla Web Browsers nsPrintEngine::CommonPrint Remote Code Execution and DoS Vulnerabilities, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 02/21/2013 14:57
Updated: 05/05/2021 10:57
Changes: 02/21/2013 14:57 (87), 04/24/2017 20:04 (5), 05/05/2021 10:57 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:AA6:103

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