Info

Last Modified

10 months ago

Percent Complete

25%

Disclosure

Apr 23, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Apr 23, 2006

Solution

Unknown

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Keywords

MoBB #4 c00771742, HPSBUX02153, SSRT061181

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2, when designMode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain Javascript that is not properly handled by the contentWindow.focus method in an iframe, which causes a reference to a deleted controller context object. NOTE: this was originally claimed to be a buffer overflow in (1) js320.dll and (2) xpcom_core.dll, but the vendor disputes this claim.

Classification

Attack Type: Input Manipulation

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.5.0.3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1015981
Secunia Advisory ID: 19802 20015 20019 20070 20214 22066
CVE ID: 2006-1993 (see also: NVD)
SCIP VulDB ID: 2187
CERT VU: 866300
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0502.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-01/0085.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2006-q2/0037.html
Other Advisory URL: http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-4-mozilla-firefox-designmode.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1053
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-06.xml
http://www.securident.com/vuln/ff.txt
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5AP040AIKO.html
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1055
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=408603
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334515
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00672120
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-30.html
Keyword: MFSA 2006-30 MoBB #4

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-04-26 | Disagree?

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