56228 : Mozilla Multiple Products Double Frame Element Construction Memory Corruption
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2009-07-21

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-2465" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors involving double frame construction, related to (1) nsHTMLContentSink.cpp, (2) nsXMLContentSink.cpp, and (3) nsPresShell.cpp, and the nsSubDocumentFrame::Reflow function.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Workaround, Upgrade
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade Firefox to version 3.0.12, 3.5 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

CVE ID: 2009-2465 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 35758
Secunia Advisory ID: 35914 35943 35944 35958 35961 35974 36005 36048 36145 51766
Related OSVDB ID: 56222 56225 56226 56227 56229 56230 56231 56232
Mail List Post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00155.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201301-01.xml
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482578
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489050
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01017.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01018.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.328828
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-265068-1
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-34.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-798-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html
RHSA-2009:1162

Tools & Filters

	40351
	5101

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-07-22 | Disagree?

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