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Mozilla Products Updater Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities - Windows

🗓️ 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AGType 
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Mozilla Products Updater Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities - Windows. Allows local attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain privileges. Upgrade to latest versions

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802867");
  script_version("2024-11-22T15:40:47+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1942", "CVE-2012-1943");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-11-22 15:40:47 +0000 (Fri, 22 Nov 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-06-19 12:31:59 +0530 (Tue, 19 Jun 2012)");
  script_name("Mozilla Products Updater Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities - Windows");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/49368");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53803");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53807");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/49366");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  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 attempt could allow local attackers to bypass security restrictions
  and gain the privileges.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"SeaMonkey version 2.9,
  Thunderbird version 12.0 and
  Mozilla Firefox version 12.0 on Windows");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"- Mozilla updater allows to load a local DLL file in a privileged context.

  - The 'Updater.exe' in the Windows Updater Service allows to load an
    arbitrary local wsock32.dll file, which can then be run with the same
    system privileges used by the service.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/Seamonkey is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 13.0 or later, upgrade to SeaMonkey version to 2.10 or later,
  upgrade to Thunderbird version to 13.0 or later.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");

vers = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(vers)
{
  if(version_is_equal(version:vers, test_version:"12.0"))
  {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, vulnerable_range:"Equal to 12.0");
    security_message(port:0, data:report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

vers = get_kb_item("Seamonkey/Win/Ver");
if(vers)
{
  if(version_is_equal(version:vers, test_version:"2.9"))
  {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, vulnerable_range:"Equal to 2.9");
    security_message(port:0, data:report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

vers = get_kb_item("Thunderbird/Win/Ver");
if(vers)
{
  if(version_is_equal(version:vers, test_version:"12.0"))
  {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, vulnerable_range:"Equal to 12.0");
    security_message(port:0, data:report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

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