Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird up to 19.0.2 Mozilla Maintenance Service memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird up to 19.0.2. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Mozilla Maintenance Service. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2013-0799. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird up to 19.0.2 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Mozilla Maintenance Service. 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 summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via crafted arguments.

The weakness was released 04/02/2013 by Frédéric Hoguin (Cody Crews) with Dell as MFSA2013-32 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated with Mozilla. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-0799 since 01/02/2013. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 65847 (FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (94976433-9c74-11e2-a9fc-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 166260 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for Mozilla Firefox (SUSE-SU-2013:0850-1)).

Upgrading to version 20.0 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 (65847), SecurityFocus (BID 58818†), OSVDB (91876†), Secunia (SA52293†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1028379†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-8139, VDB-8140, VDB-8142 and VDB-8143. 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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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 65847
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (94976433-9c74-11e2-a9fc-d43d7e0c7c02)
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OpenVAS ID: 803466
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox ESR Multiple Vulnerabilities -01 Apr13 (Mac OS X)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox/Thunderbird 20.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA2013-32
Researcher: Frédéric Hoguin (Cody Crews)
Organization: Dell
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-0799 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0799
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-8141

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SecurityFocus: 58818 - RETIRED: Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2013-30 through -40 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 52293 - Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird / SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 91876
SecurityTracker: 1028379 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code, Deny Service, and Conduct Phishing and Cross-Site Scripting Attacks and Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
Vulnerability Center: 38994 - Mozilla Web Browsers Maintenance Service on Windows Allows Privilege Escalation - CVE-2013-0799, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/04/2013 11:49
Updated: 01/31/2018 09:54
Changes: 04/04/2013 11:49 (84), 01/31/2018 09:54 (6)
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Committer: olku
Cache ID: 216::103

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