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Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability (Jan 2009) - Linux

🗓️ 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbHType 
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Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability (Jan 2009) - Linux. Fails to enforce same-origin policy, leading to cross-domain info disclosure. Update to version 3.6.3 or late

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Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability Jan09 (Linux)
28 Jan 200900:00
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# Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# 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-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900449");
  script_version("2022-05-09T13:48:18+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-05-09 13:48:18 +0000 (Mon, 09 May 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-01-28 13:27:12 +0100 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.1");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-5913");
  script_name("Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability (Jan 2009) - Linux");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480938");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33276");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.trusteer.com/files/In-session-phishing-advisory-2.pdf");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("mozilla/firefox/linux/detected");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let the attacker execute arbitrary
  codes in the context of the web browser and can obtain sensitive information
  of the remote user through the web browser.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version from 2.0 to 3.0.5.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The Web Browser fails to properly enforce the same-origin policy, which leads
  to cross-domain information disclosure.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.6.3 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if(version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"2.0", test_version2:"3.0.5")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version, fixed_version:"3.6.3", install_path:location);
  security_message(port:0, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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