Mozilla Firefox 19.0/19.0.1/19.0.2 PNG Decoder information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Mozilla Firefox 19.0/19.0.1/19.0.2. This affects an unknown function of the component PNG Decoder. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability was named CVE-2013-0792. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Mozilla Firefox 19.0/19.0.1/19.0.2 (Web Browser). Affected is an unknown function of the component PNG Decoder. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Mozilla Firefox before 20.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.17, when gfx.color_management.enablev4 is used, do not properly handle color profiles during PNG rendering, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a grayscale PNG image.

The weakness was presented 04/02/2013 by Tobias Schula with Dell as Bug 722831 as not defined changelog entry (Website). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with the vendor. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2013-0792 since 01/02/2013. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

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 166434 (OpenSuSE Security Update for seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2013:1180-1)).

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 (91883†), Secunia (SA52293†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-39002†). See VDB-8139, VDB-8140, VDB-8141 and VDB-8142 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 65847
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (94976433-9c74-11e2-a9fc-d43d7e0c7c02)
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OpenVAS ID: 803464
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities -01 Apr13 (Mac OS X)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 20.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 722831
Researcher: Tobias Schula
Organization: Dell
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CVE: CVE-2013-0792 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0792
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-8148

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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: 91883
Vulnerability Center: 39002 - Mozilla Firefox before 20.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.17 Memory Corruption via a Grayscale PNG Image, Low

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/04/2013 16:00
Updated: 04/26/2017 18:14
Changes: 04/04/2013 16:00 (81), 04/26/2017 18:14 (4)
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