Date: 16 September 2008
References: ESB-2006.0102 AA-2006.0021 AL-2006.0027 ESB-2006.0390
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2006.0617 -- [Solaris]
Multiple Security Vulnerabilites in Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7 for
Solaris and for Sun JDS for Linux
16 September 2008
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Mozilla versions 1.7 and 1.4
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris 8, 9 and 10
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Read-only Data Access
Access Privileged Data
Denial of Service
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CVE-2005-4134 CVE-2006-0292 CVE-2006-0293
CVE-2006-0296 CVE-2006-0748 CVE-2006-0749
CVE-2006-0884 CVE-2006-1724 CVE-2006-1727
CVE-2006-1728 CVE-2006-1729 CVE-2006-1730
CVE-2006-1731 CVE-2006-1732 CVE-2006-1733
CVE-2006-1734 CVE-2006-1735 CVE-2006-1736
CVE-2006-1737 CVE-2006-1738 CVE-2006-1739
CVE-2006-1740 CVE-2006-1741 CVE-2006-1742
CVE-2006-1790
Ref: AL-2006.0027
AA-2006.0021
ESB-2006.0390
ESB-2006.0102
Revision History: September 16 2008: Updated resolution section
detailing final patches
December 13 2006: Fixes are available for Solaris 8
and 9
August 28 2006: Initial Release
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Solution Type: Sun Alert
Solution 228526 : Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Mozilla 1.4
and 1.7 for Solaris and for Sun JDS for Linux
Previously Published As: 102550
Bug ID: 6412730, 6415128, 6415131, 6415133, 6415135, 6415138, 6415142,
6415143, 6424493, 6424545, 6424548, 6424551, 6424560, 6424563,
6424567, 6424568, 6424573, 6424574, 6424577, 6424579
Product
Mozilla 1.4 for Solaris
Mozilla 1.4 for Linux
Mozilla v1.7
Date of Workaround Release: 22-AUG-2006
Date of Resolved Release: 08-Sep-2008
SA Document Body
Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7 for Solaris and
for Sun JDS for Linux
1. Impact
Multiple security vulnerabilities are present in Mozilla version 1.4
(Solaris 8 and 9) and Mozilla version 1.7 (Solaris 8, 9 and 10) and
under Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) for Linux. (Mozilla can be used
as a web browser and editor, an irc client, an email client, and a
news client).
These issues may allow a remote unprivileged user who controls a
website that is visited by a local user using the Mozilla browser to
execute code with elevated privileges, gain unauthorized access to
data stored on the local machine, or cause a Denial of Service (DoS)
to the Mozilla browser.
Bug 6415128 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains an integer overflow flaw within the CSS letter
spacing property. This flaw may result in a remote user executing
arbitrary code with the privileges of the local user when an affected
site is visited.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-22.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/179014
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1730
Bug 6415131 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the XBL bindings which may allow a
remote user the ability to execute JavaScript code within the XBL
bindings with the privileges of the local user when an affected site
is visited.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-16.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488774
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1733
Bug 6415133 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the "Object.watch" method which may
allow a remote user the ability to execute arbitrary JavaScript code
with the privileges of the local user when an affected site is
visited.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-15.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/842094
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1734
Bug 6415135 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the "eval" method of the XBL bindings
which may allow a remote user the ability to execute arbitrary
JavaScript code with the privileges of the local user when an affected
site is visited.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-14.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/813230
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1735
Bug 6415138 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the processing of HTML tags that may
allow a remote user the ability to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the local user when an affected site is visited.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-18.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/736934
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-0749
Bug 6412730 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the "XULDocument.presist" method which
may allow a remote attacker to inject XML into the localstore
(localstore.rdf) when an affected site is visited. The injected XML
might be acted upon at startup thus executing arbitrary code.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-05.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/592425
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-0296
Bug 6424493 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the local user when a site is
viewed with an invalid order for the table related tags.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-27.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-0748
Bug 6424545 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to gain
"chrome" privilege when using the print preview feature of the
browser.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-25.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1727
Bug 6424548 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker the ability
to read any local file when a site is viewed.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-23.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1729
Bug 6424551 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla Mail contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to execute
arbitrary JavaScript when a mail message is forwarded as embedded
text.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-21.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-0884
Bug 6424560 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within ".valueOf.call()" and
".valueOf.apply()" that may allow a remote attacker to inject script
into another window.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-19.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1731
Bug 6424563 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the "window.controllers" array that may
allow a malicious site to inject script into content from another
site.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-17.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1732
Bug 6424567 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw with the handling of layered transparent
images that may allow a malicious site to convince visitors to save
the image and then fool them by uploading an executable instead.
Should the user later double-click the saved "image" within a file
manager, it would be executing with the privileges of the local user.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-13.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1736
Bug 6424568 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw in the browser's secure-site indicators that
may allow a malicious site to spoof a local user into thinking they
are still at a secure site.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-12.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1740
Bug 6415143 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within DHTML which may allow a remote user the
ability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the local
user when an affected site is visited.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-20.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/350262
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1724
Bug 6415142 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains several flaws that may allow a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code. There exists a buffer overflow within the CSS
border-rendering code that may allow the remote attacker to execute
arbitrary code. There exists a 16-bit integer overflow that may allow
a remote attacker to execute the supplied data as JavaScript bytecode.
When programmatically changing the "-moz-grid" and "-moz-grid-group"
display styles, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary
code. There exists a buffer overflow within the
"InstallTrigger.install()" method that was introduced by the fix for
mfsa2005-58.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-11.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/329500
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/252324
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935556
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1737
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1738
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1739
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2006-1790
Bug 6424573 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the JavaScript engine for routines that
use temporary variables. This flaw may allow a malicious site to
execute arbitrary code including installing software as the local
user.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-10.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1742
Bug 6424574 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw that may allow a malicious site to inject
JavaScript code into a new site using a modal alert. This
vulnerability may allow an attacker to steal confidential information
that the new site might contain.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-09.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1741
Bug 6424577 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw which may allow a Denial of Service (DOS) to
occur when the browser displays a very long title.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-03.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4134
Bug 6424579 - For Mozilla 1.4 and 1.7:
Mozilla contains a flaw within the JavaScript engine which may cause a
temporary variable to be freed during garbage collection. This flaw
may be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the
permissions of the local user.
This issue is described in the following documents:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2006-01.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0292
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0293
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Mozilla 1.4 (for Solaris 8)
* Mozilla 1.4 (for Solaris 9)
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) without patch 120671-02
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) without patch 119115-19
x86 Platform
* Mozilla 1.4 (for Solaris 8)
* Mozilla 1.4 (for Solaris 9)
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) without patch 120672-02
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) without patch 119116-19
Linux Platform
* Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2 without the updated RPMs
Note: These issues (for Mozilla 1.4) only occur with Mozilla versions
"mozilla-1.4.1-224b" or earlier.
To determine the version of Mozilla on a Solaris system, the following
command can be run:
% /usr/sfw/bin/mozilla -version
Mozilla 1.7, (Sun Java Desktop System), build 2005031721
To determine the release of JDS for Linux installed on a system, the
following command can be run:
% cat /etc/sun-release
Sun Java Desktop System, Release 2 -build 10b (GA)
Assembled 30 March 2004
To determine the version of Mozilla on a Linux system, the following
command (on JDS for Linux) can be run:
% rpm -qf /usr/bin/mozilla
mozilla-1.4.1-224b
3. Symptoms
There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described
issues have been exploited.
4. Workaround
Different issues will require different workarounds, as described in
the following options/examples:
A) Disable JavaScript. To do this in Mozilla:
1. Open the Preferences dialog from the Edit menu
2. Select the Advanced tree
3. Select the Scripts & Plug-ins leaf
4. Uncheck the Navigator and Mail & Newsgroups check boxes
5. Click the OK button
Or:
1. Enter "about:config" in the location field
2. Enter "javascript.enabled" in the search field
3. Double click on the value and change it to false
4. Click the OK button
B) Visit only trusted web sites.
C) Use the default mail message embedding when forwarding a mail
message. This can be done by setting the forwarding preference:
1. Open the Preferences dialog from the Edit menu
2. Select the Mail & Newsgroups tree
3. Select the Composition leaf
4. Set the Forward messages list to "As Attachment"
5. Click the OK button
D) Only download images from trusted web sites.
E) Turn off the "Entering encrypted site" warning dialog. To do this
in Mozilla:
1. Enter "about:config" in the location field
2. Enter "security.warn" in the search field
3. Double click on each "security.warn" and change the value to false
4. click the OK button
F) Turn off the browser history. To do this in Mozilla:
1. Open the Preferences dialog from the Edit menu
2. Select the Navigator tree
3. On the History leaf, set the "remember duration" to 0 days
Or:
1. Enter "about:config" in the location field
2. Enter "browser.history_expires_day" in the search field
3. Double click on the value and change it to 0
4. Click the OK button
G) Remove the "history.dat" file. This can be done by running the
following commands:
% cd $HOME/.mozilla/<profile>/*
% rm history.dat
All of these issues can be resolved by downloading and
installing/upgrading to the latest Mozilla version from the Mozilla
community website at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7.13
Linux Platform
* Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2 with the updated RPMs
available at:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0.1&os=linux&lang=e
n-US
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) with patch 120671-02 or
later
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) with patch 119115-19 or later
x86 Platform
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) with patch 120672-02 or
later
* Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) with patch 119116-19 or later
Systems running Mozilla 1.4 will need to upgrade to Mozilla 1.7 and
apply the above patches to resolve this issue. Mozilla 1.7 can be
downloaded at
http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Desktop&tab=3&subcat=Web
%20Browsers
Or from the Mozilla community website at
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7.13
Note: For additional issues regarding patch 119116-19, please see
Sun Alert 102612 at
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102612-1
Linux Platform
* Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2 with the updated RPMs (see
"Workaround" section)
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