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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-24 |
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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: July 26, 2005 |
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Bugs: #98846 |
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ID: 200507-24 |
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Synopsis |
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Several vulnerabilities in the Mozilla Suite allow attacks ranging from |
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the execution of javascript code with elevated privileges to |
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information leakage. |
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Background |
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The Mozilla Suite is an all-in-one Internet application suite including |
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a web browser, an advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC client and |
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HTML editor. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 www-client/mozilla < 1.7.10 >= 1.7.10 |
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2 www-client/mozilla-bin < 1.7.10 >= 1.7.10 |
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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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* "moz_bug_r_a4" and "shutdown" discovered that the Mozilla Suite was |
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improperly cloning base objects (MFSA 2005-56). |
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* "moz_bug_r_a4" reported that the suite failed to validate XHTML DOM |
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nodes properly (MFSA 2005-55). |
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* Secunia reported that alerts and prompts scripts are presented with |
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the generic title [JavaScript Application] which could lead to |
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tricking a user (MFSA 2005-54). |
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* Andreas Sandblad of Secunia reported that top.focus() can be called |
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in the context of a child frame even if the framing page comes from a |
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different origin and has overridden the focus() routine (MFSA |
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2005-52). |
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* Secunia reported that a frame-injection spoofing bug which was |
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fixed in earlier versions, was accidently bypassed in Mozilla Suite |
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1.7.7 (MFSA 2005-51). |
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* "shutdown" reported that InstallVersion.compareTo() might be |
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exploitable. When it gets an object rather than a string, the browser |
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would generally crash with an access violation (MFSA 2005-50). |
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* Matthew Mastracci reported that by forcing a page navigation |
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immediately after calling the install method can end up running in |
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the context of the new page selected by the attacker (MFSA 2005-48). |
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* "moz_bug_r_a4" reported that XBL scripts run even when Javascript |
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is disabled (MFSA 2005-46). |
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* Omar Khan, Jochen, "shutdown" and Matthew Mastracci reported that |
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the Mozilla Suite incorrectly distinguished between true events like |
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mouse clicks or keystrokes and synthetic events generated by a web |
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content (MFSA 2005-45). |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could craft malicious web pages that would leverage |
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these issues to inject and execute arbitrary javascript code with |
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elevated privileges, steal cookies or other information from web pages, |
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or spoof content. |
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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-1.7.10" |
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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-1.7.10" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories |
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Mozilla |
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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-200507-24.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 |