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firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3738 CVE-2007-3656 CVE-2007-3670 CVE-2007-3285 CVE-2007-3737 CVE-2007-3089 CVE-2007-3736 CVE-2007-3734 CVE-2007-3735
Created:July 18, 2007 Updated:May 12, 2008
Description: shutdown and moz_bug_r_a4 reported two separate ways to modify an XPCNativeWrapper such that subsequent access by the browser would result in executing user-supplied code. (CVE-2007-3738)

Michal Zalewski reported that it was possible to bypass the same-origin checks and read from cached (wyciwyg) documents It is possible to access wyciwyg:// documents without proper same domain policy checks through the use of HTTP 302 redirects. This enables the attacker to steal sensitive data displayed on dynamically generated pages; perform cache poisoning; and execute own code or display own content with URL bar and SSL certificate data of the attacked page (URL spoofing++). (CVE-2007-3656)

Internet Explorer calls registered URL protocols without escaping quotes and may be used to pass unexpected and potentially dangerous data to the application that registers that URL Protocol. (CVE-2007-3670)

Ronald van den Heetkamp reported that a filename URL containing %00 (encoded null) can cause Firefox to interpret the file extension differently than the underlying Windows operating system potentially leading to unsafe actions such as running a program. This is only accessible locally. (CVE-2007-3285)

An attacker can use an element outside of a document to call an event handler allowing content to run arbitrary code with chrome privileges. (CVE-2007-3737)

Ronen Zilberman and Michal Zalewski both reported that it was possible to exploit a timing issue to inject content into about:blank frames in a page. When opening a window from a script, it is possible to spoof the content of the newly opened window's frames within a short time frame, while the window is loading. (CVE-2007-3089)

Mozilla contributor moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrated that the methods addEventListener and setTimeout could be used to inject script into another site in violation of the browser's same-origin policy. This could be used to access or modify private or valuable information from that other site. (CVE-2007-3736)

As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.5 update releases Mozilla developers fixed many bugs to improve the stability of the product. Some of these crashes that showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. Note: Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. Without further investigation we cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript, such as large images. (CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735)

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1574-1 2008-05-12
Debian DSA-1534-2 2008-04-24
Debian DSA-1535-1 2008-03-30
Debian DSA-1534-1 2008-03-28
Debian DSA-1532-1 2008-03-27
Mandriva MDVSA-2007:047 2007-02-19
Ubuntu USN-503-1 2007-08-24
Slackware SSA:2007-222-04 2007-08-13
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:049 2007-08-02
Slackware SSA:2007-205-02 2007-07-25
Slackware SSA:2007-205-01 2007-07-25
Foresight FLEA-2007-0033-1 2007-07-24
Debian DSA-1339-1 2007-07-23
Debian DSA-1338-1 2007-07-23
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1181 2007-07-20
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1180 2007-07-20
Debian DSA-1337-1 2007-07-22
Fedora FEDORA-2007-642 2007-07-20
Fedora FEDORA-2007-641 2007-07-20
rPath rPSA-2007-0148-1 2007-07-20
Ubuntu USN-490-1 2007-07-19
Slackware SSA:2007-200-01 2007-07-20
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1159 2007-07-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1157 2007-07-19
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1155 2007-07-19
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0724-01 2007-07-18
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0723-01 2007-07-18
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0722-01 2007-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1143 2007-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1144 2007-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1142 2007-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2007-1138 2007-07-18

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