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HistoryOct 05, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-838-1 : mozilla-firefox - multiple vulnerabilities

2005-10-0500:00:00
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Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the mozilla-firefox web browser. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute code on the victim’s machine via specially crafted network resources.

  • CAN-2005-2701 Heap overrun in XBM image processing

  • CAN-2005-2702

    Denial of service (crash) and possible execution of arbitrary code via Unicode sequences with ‘zero-width non-joiner’ characters.

  • CAN-2005-2703

    XMLHttpRequest header spoofing

  • CAN-2005-2704

    Object spoofing using XBL <implements>

  • CAN-2005-2705

    JavaScript integer overflow

  • CAN-2005-2706

    Privilege escalation using about: scheme

  • CAN-2005-2707

    Chrome window spoofing allowing windows to be created without UI components such as a URL bar or status bar that could be used to carry out phishing attacks

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-838. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(19807);
  script_version("1.17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2701", "CVE-2005-2702", "CVE-2005-2703", "CVE-2005-2704", "CVE-2005-2705", "CVE-2005-2706", "CVE-2005-2707");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"838");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-838-1 : mozilla-firefox - multiple vulnerabilities");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the
mozilla-firefox web browser. These vulnerabilities could allow an
attacker to execute code on the victim's machine via specially crafted
network resources.

  - CAN-2005-2701
    Heap overrun in XBM image processing

  - CAN-2005-2702

    Denial of service (crash) and possible execution of
    arbitrary code via Unicode sequences with 'zero-width
    non-joiner' characters.

  - CAN-2005-2703

    XMLHttpRequest header spoofing

  - CAN-2005-2704

    Object spoofing using XBL <implements>

  - CAN-2005-2705

    JavaScript integer overflow

  - CAN-2005-2706

    Privilege escalation using about: scheme

  - CAN-2005-2707

    Chrome window spoofing allowing windows to be created
    without UI components such as a URL bar or status bar
    that could be used to carry out phishing attacks"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-838"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the mozilla-firefox package.

For the stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.4-2sarge5."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_cwe_id(94);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mozilla-firefox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/10/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/10/05");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-firefox", reference:"1.0.4-2sarge5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector", reference:"1.0.4-2sarge5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-firefox-gnome-support", reference:"1.0.4-2sarge5")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxmozilla-firefoxp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mozilla-firefox
debiandebian_linux3.1cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1