This Week in Security: Patchapalooza, iOS 4 and the Irrelevance of Full Disclosure

This week was one of the ones that my colleague Ryan Naraine often refers to as a Patchapalooza, with each day bringing a new set of fixes for Firefox, Opera, the iPhone or some other device or application. And it didn’t even include Microsoft or Adobe. Go figure. The week also included the...

Mozilla Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.10 and 3.6.x before 3.6.4, Thunderbird before 3.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitra...

Mozilla Freed object reuse across plugin instances

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.10 and 3.6.x before 3.6.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving multiple plugin instances...

Firefox: overlong UTF-8 seqence detection problem

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting XSS protection mechanisms via a crafted string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1210...

CVE-2010-1988

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via JavaScript code that performs certain string concatenation and substring operations, a different vulnerability than...

Firefox Arbitrary code execution with Firebug XMLHttpRequestSpy

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, when the XMLHttpRequestSpy module in the Firebug add-on is used, does not properly handle interaction between the XMLHttpRequestSpy object and chrome privileged objects, which allows remote attackers to execute...

Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2; Thunderbird before 3.0.4; and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly...

Memory corruption

Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x through 3.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash and possibly have unknown other impact via vectors that might involve compressed data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1028...

CVE-2010-0164

Use-after-free vulnerability in the imgContainer::InternalAddFrameHelper function in src/imgContainer.cpp in libpr0n in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a...

EUVD-2010-1060

Integer overflow in the decompression functionality in the Web Open Fonts Format WOFF decoder in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 and 3.7 before 3.7 alpha 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted WOFF file that triggers a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by the vdff modul...

Mozilla data corruption with SOCKS5 reply

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote SOCKS5 proxy servers to cause a denial of service data stream corruption via a long domain name in a reply...

Firefox 3.0.14 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 does not properly implement certain dialogs associated with the 1 pkcs11.addmodule and 2 pkcs11.deletemodule operations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into installing or removing an arbitrary PKCS11 module...

Firefox download filename spoofing with RTL override

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0, does not properly handle a right-to-left override aka RLO or U+202E Unicode character in a download filename, which allows remote attackers to spoof file extensions via a crafted filename, as demonstrated by displayin...

Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown...

CVE-2009-4363

TextFilter/lib/Horde/Text/Filter/Xss.php in Horde Application Framework before 3.3.6, Horde Groupware before 1.2.5, and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 1.2.5 does not properly handle data: URIs, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via data:text/html...

Firefox cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection()

content/html/document/src/nsHTMLDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4 allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read an arbitrary content selection via the document.getSelection function...

Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 browser engine crashes

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.24, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary co...

firefox: URL bar spoofing vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.13, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, via a crafted web page that calls window.open with an invalid character in the URL, makes document.write calls to the resulting object, and then calls th...

Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, does not properly manage pointers for the columns aka TreeColumns of a XUL tree element, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."...

Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters

Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, allows remote attackers to trigger a vertical scroll and spoof URLs via unspecified Unicode characters with a tall line-height property...