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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Date: December 29, 2007 |
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Bugs: #198965, #200909 |
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ID: 200712-21 |
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Synopsis |
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and |
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Mozilla Seamonkey. |
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Background |
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Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform web browser from Mozilla. SeaMonkey |
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is a free, cross-platform Internet suite. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 www-client/mozilla-firefox < 2.0.0.11 >= 2.0.0.11 |
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2 www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin < 2.0.0.11 >= 2.0.0.11 |
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3 www-client/seamonkey < 1.1.7 >= 1.1.7 |
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4 www-client/seamonkey-bin < 1.1.7 >= 1.1.7 |
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4 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. |
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Description |
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Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov reported that the jar protocol |
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handler in Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey does not properly check MIME |
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types (CVE-2007-5947). Gregory Fleischer reported that the |
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window.location property can be used to generate a fake HTTP Referer |
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(CVE-2007-5960). Multiple memory errors have also been reported |
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(CVE-2007-5959). |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could possibly exploit these vulnerabilities to |
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execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser and conduct |
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Cross-Site-Scripting or Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11" |
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All Mozilla Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask -1 -v ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.11" |
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All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-1.1.7" |
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All SeaMonkey binary users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1.7" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-5947 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5947 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2007-5959 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5959 |
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[ 3 ] CVE-2007-5960 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5960 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-21.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |