Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0 Eingabe memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation as part of Eingabe causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-0784. Additionally, an exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Mozilla Firefox up to 18.0 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation as part of a Eingabe leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 19.0, Thunderbird before 17.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.16 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 released 02/19/2013 by Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew and Wayne Mery (Inferno) with Google Chrome Security Team as MFSA 2013-21 as confirmed advisory (Mozilla Blog). It is possible to read the advisory at mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated with Mozilla. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2013-0784 since 01/02/2013. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a private exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 64693 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (e3f0374a-7ad6-11e2-84cd-d43d7e0c7c02)), 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 195308 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-1729-1)).

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 (64693), SecurityFocus (BID 58030†), OSVDB (90428†), Secunia (SA52240†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1028162†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-7761, VDB-7762, VDB-7763 and VDB-7764. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
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Access: Private
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 64693
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (e3f0374a-7ad6-11e2-84cd-d43d7e0c7c02)
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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 2013-21
Researcher: Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew, Wayne Mery (Inferno)
Organization: Google Chrome Security Team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-0784 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0784
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7771

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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: 90428
SecurityTracker: 1028162 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information
Vulnerability Center: 38496 - Mozilla Web Browsers Remote Denial of Service or Code Execution - CVE-2013-0784, Medium

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

Created: 02/21/2013 15:38
Updated: 05/05/2021 12:18
Changes: 02/21/2013 15:38 (85), 04/24/2017 20:07 (6), 05/05/2021 12:18 (2)
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