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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-30 |
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http://security.gentoo.org/ |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Date: March 25, 2005 |
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Bugs: #84074 |
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ID: 200503-30 |
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Synopsis |
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The Mozilla Suite is vulnerable to multiple issues ranging from the |
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remote execution of arbitrary code to various issues allowing to trick |
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the user into trusting fake web sites or interacting with privileged |
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content. |
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Background |
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The Mozilla Suite is a popular all-in-one web browser that includes a |
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mail and news reader. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 www-client/mozilla < 1.7.6 >= 1.7.6 |
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2 www-client/mozilla-bin < 1.7.6 >= 1.7.6 |
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. |
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Description |
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The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla |
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Suite: |
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* Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in |
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the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2 (CAN-2005-0399) |
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* Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged |
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content and trick the user to interact with it (CAN-2005-0232, |
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CAN-2005-0527) |
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* Michael Krax also reported potential spoofing or |
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cross-site-scripting issues through overlapping windows, image or |
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scrollbar drag-and-drop, and by dropping javascript: links on tabs |
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(CAN-2005-0230, CAN-2005-0231, CAN-2005-0401, CAN-2005-0591) |
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* Daniel de Wildt and Gael Delalleau discovered a memory overwrite in |
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a string library (CAN-2005-0255) |
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* Wind Li discovered a possible heap overflow in UTF8 to Unicode |
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conversion (CAN-2005-0592) |
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* Eric Johanson reported that Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) |
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features allow homograph attacks (CAN-2005-0233) |
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* Mook, Doug Turner, Kohei Yoshino and M. Deaudelin reported various |
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ways of spoofing the SSL "secure site" indicator (CAN-2005-0593) |
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* Georgi Guninski discovered that XSLT can include stylesheets from |
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arbitrary hosts (CAN-2005-0588) |
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* Secunia discovered a way of injecting content into a popup opened |
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by another website (CAN-2004-1156) |
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* Phil Ringnalda reported a possible way to spoof Install source with |
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user:pass@host (CAN-2005-0590) |
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* Jakob Balle from Secunia discovered a possible way of spoofing the |
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Download dialog source (CAN-2005-0585) |
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* Christian Schmidt reported a potential spoofing issue in HTTP auth |
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prompt tab (CAN-2005-0584) |
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* Finally, Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team |
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discovered that Mozilla insecurely creates temporary filenames in |
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/tmp/plugtmp (CAN-2005-0578) |
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Impact |
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* The GIF heap overflow could be triggered by a malicious GIF image |
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that would end up executing arbitrary code with the rights of the |
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user running Mozilla. The other overflow issues, while not thought to |
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be exploitable, would have the same impact |
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* By setting up malicious websites and convincing users to follow |
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untrusted links or obey very specific drag-and-drop or download |
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instructions, attackers may leverage the various spoofing issues to |
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fake other websites to get access to confidential information, push |
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users to download malicious files or make them interact with their |
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browser preferences |
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* The temporary directory issue allows local attackers to overwrite |
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arbitrary files with the rights of another local user |
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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 Suite users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-1.7.6" |
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All Mozilla Suite binary users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-bin-1.7.6" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CAN-2004-1156 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1156 |
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[ 2 ] CAN-2005-0230 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0230 |
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[ 3 ] CAN-2005-0231 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0231 |
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[ 4 ] CAN-2005-0232 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0232 |
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[ 5 ] CAN-2005-0233 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0233 |
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[ 6 ] CAN-2005-0255 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0255 |
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[ 7 ] CAN-2005-0399 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0399 |
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[ 8 ] CAN-2005-0401 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0401 |
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[ 9 ] CAN-2005-0527 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0527 |
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[ 10 ] CAN-2005-0578 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0578 |
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[ 11 ] CAN-2005-0584 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0584 |
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[ 12 ] CAN-2005-0585 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0585 |
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[ 13 ] CAN-2005-0588 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0588 |
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[ 14 ] CAN-2005-0590 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0590 |
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[ 15 ] CAN-2005-0591 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0591 |
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[ 16 ] CAN-2005-0592 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0592 |
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[ 17 ] CAN-2005-0593 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0593 |
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[ 18 ] Mozilla Security Advisories |
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html |
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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-200503-30.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 2005 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/2.0 |
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