MozillaFirefox was updated to version 2.0.0.16, which fixes various bugs and following security issues :
MFSA 2008-34 CVE-2008-2785: An anonymous researcher, via TippingPointโs Zero Day Initiative program, reported a vulnerability in Mozilla CSS reference counting code. The vulnerability was caused by an insufficiently sized variable being used as a reference counter for CSS objects. By creating a very large number of references to a common CSS object, this counter could be overflowed which could cause a crash when the browser attempts to free the CSS object while still in use. An attacker could use this crash to run arbitrary code on the victimโs computer.
MFSA 2008-35 CVE-2008-2933: Security researcher Billy Rios reported that if Firefox is not already running, passing it a command-line URI with pipe symbols will open multiple tabs. This URI splitting could be used to launch privileged chrome: URIs from the command-line, a partial bypass of the fix for MFSA 2005-53 which blocks external applications from loading such URIs. This vulnerability could also be used by an attacker to launch a file: URI from the command line opening a malicious local file which could exfiltrate data from the local filesystem. Combined with a vulnerability which allows an attacker to inject code into a chrome document, the above issue could be used to run arbitrary code on a victimโs computer. Such a chrome injection vulnerability was reported by Mozilla developers Ben Turner and Dan Veditz who showed that a XUL based SSL error page was not properly sanitizing inputs and could be used to run arbitrary code with chrome privileges.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update MozillaFirefox-5449.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(33756);
script_version("1.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2785", "CVE-2008-2933");
script_name(english:"openSUSE 10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-5449)");
script_summary(english:"Check for the MozillaFirefox-5449 patch");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"MozillaFirefox was updated to version 2.0.0.16, which fixes various
bugs and following security issues :
MFSA 2008-34 CVE-2008-2785: An anonymous researcher, via
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative program, reported a vulnerability
in Mozilla CSS reference counting code. The vulnerability was caused
by an insufficiently sized variable being used as a reference counter
for CSS objects. By creating a very large number of references to a
common CSS object, this counter could be overflowed which could cause
a crash when the browser attempts to free the CSS object while still
in use. An attacker could use this crash to run arbitrary code on the
victim's computer.
MFSA 2008-35 CVE-2008-2933: Security researcher Billy Rios reported
that if Firefox is not already running, passing it a command-line URI
with pipe symbols will open multiple tabs. This URI splitting could be
used to launch privileged chrome: URIs from the command-line, a
partial bypass of the fix for MFSA 2005-53 which blocks external
applications from loading such URIs. This vulnerability could also be
used by an attacker to launch a file: URI from the command line
opening a malicious local file which could exfiltrate data from the
local filesystem. Combined with a vulnerability which allows an
attacker to inject code into a chrome document, the above issue could
be used to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer. Such a chrome
injection vulnerability was reported by Mozilla developers Ben Turner
and Dan Veditz who showed that a XUL based SSL error page was not
properly sanitizing inputs and could be used to run arbitrary code
with chrome privileges."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected MozillaFirefox packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cwe_id(20, 189);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:MozillaFirefox-translations");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/07/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/07/29");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE10\.2|SUSE10\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "10.2 / 10.3", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
flag = 0;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.16-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-2.0.0.16-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.16-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-2.0.0.16-0.1") ) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "MozillaFirefox");
}