7.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
7.1 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.034 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.3%
Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey/Thunderbird is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800848");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-07-22 21:36:53 +0200 (Wed, 22 Jul 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.1");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2535", "CVE-2009-1692");
script_name("Mozilla Products 'select()' Denial Of Service Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9160");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35446");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.g-sec.lu/one-bug-to-rule-them-all.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl", "gb_seamonkey_detect_win.nasl", "gb_thunderbird_detect_portable_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Mozilla/Firefox_or_Seamonkey_or_Thunderbird/Installed");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let attackers to cause application crash by
consuming the memory.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Seamonkey version prior to 1.1.17
Thunderbird version 2.0.0.22 and prior
Firefox version before 2.0.0.19 and 3.x before 3.0.5 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A null pointer dereference error occurs while calling the 'select' method with
a large integer, that results in continuous allocation of x+n bytes of memory exhausting memory after a while.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey/Thunderbird is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Firefox version 2.0.0.19 or 3.0.5 or later
Upgrade to Seamonkey version 1.1.17 or later
Apply patch for Thunderbird through above mozilla engine update.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
ffVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(ffVer)
{
if(version_is_less(version:ffVer, test_version:"2.0.0.19")||
version_in_range(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.0", test_version2:"3.0.4"))
{
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
exit(0);
}
}
smVer = get_kb_item("Seamonkey/Win/Ver");
if(smVer != NULL)
{
if(version_is_less(version:smVer, test_version:"1.1.17"))
{
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
exit(0);
}
}
tbVer = get_kb_item("Thunderbird/Win/Ver");
if(tbVer != NULL)
{
if(version_is_less_equal(version:tbVer, test_version:"2.0.0.22")){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}
}