Mozilla products fail to properly handle frame references

Overview

Mozilla products fail to properly handle frame or window references. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Description

JavaScript references are not properly cleared after an object is deleted. An attacker may be able to use the reference to a deleted object to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

According to the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-044, versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 1.5 and the Mozilla Suite are not affected by this vulnerability.

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Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker could execute code with the privileges of the user running the Mozilla-based web browser.

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Solution

Apply an update
This vulnerability is addressed in Firefox 1.5.0.5, Thunderbird 1.5.0.5, and SeaMonkey 1.0.3, according to the Mozilla Foundation Security Update MFSA 2006-44.

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Disable JavaScript

This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling JavaScript.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: July 27, 2006

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Please see Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-44.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23476724 Feedback>).

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References

• <http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-44.html&gt;
• <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338288&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/19873/&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/21216/&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/21229/&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/21228/&gt;
• <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19181&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported by the Mozilla Foundation, who in turn credit Thilo Germann.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2006-3801
Severity Metric:	8.35 Date Public: