CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
97.4%
MozillaFirefox was updated to version 2.0.0.16, which fixes various bugs and following security issues :
An anonymous researcher, via TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative program, reported a vulnerability in Mozilla CSS reference counting code. The vulnerability was caused by an insufficiently sized variable being used as a reference counter for CSS objects. By creating a very large number of references to a common CSS object, this counter could be overflowed which could cause a crash when the browser attempts to free the CSS object while still in use. An attacker could use this crash to run arbitrary code on the victim’s computer. (MFSA 2008-34 / CVE-2008-2785)
Security researcher Billy Rios reported that if Firefox is not already running, passing it a command-line URI with pipe symbols will open multiple tabs. This URI splitting could be used to launch privileged chrome:
URIs from the command-line, a partial bypass of the fix for MFSA 2005-53 which blocks external applications from loading such URIs. This vulnerability could also be used by an attacker to launch a file: URI from the command line opening a malicious local file which could exfiltrate data from the local filesystem. Combined with a vulnerability which allows an attacker to inject code into a chrome document, the above issue could be used to run arbitrary code on a victim’s computer. Such a chrome injection vulnerability was reported by Mozilla developers Ben Turner and Dan Veditz who showed that a XUL based SSL error page was not properly sanitizing inputs and could be used to run arbitrary code with chrome privileges. (MFSA 2008-35 / CVE-2008-2933)
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) Novell, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(33757);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2785", "CVE-2008-2933");
script_name(english:"SuSE 10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (ZYPP Patch Number 5450)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"MozillaFirefox was updated to version 2.0.0.16, which fixes various
bugs and following security issues :
- An anonymous researcher, via TippingPoint's Zero Day
Initiative program, reported a vulnerability in Mozilla
CSS reference counting code. The vulnerability was
caused by an insufficiently sized variable being used as
a reference counter for CSS objects. By creating a very
large number of references to a common CSS object, this
counter could be overflowed which could cause a crash
when the browser attempts to free the CSS object while
still in use. An attacker could use this crash to run
arbitrary code on the victim's computer. (MFSA 2008-34 /
CVE-2008-2785)
- Security researcher Billy Rios reported that if Firefox
is not already running, passing it a command-line URI
with pipe symbols will open multiple tabs. This URI
splitting could be used to launch privileged chrome:
URIs from the command-line, a partial bypass of the fix
for MFSA 2005-53 which blocks external applications from
loading such URIs. This vulnerability could also be used
by an attacker to launch a file: URI from the command
line opening a malicious local file which could
exfiltrate data from the local filesystem. Combined with
a vulnerability which allows an attacker to inject code
into a chrome document, the above issue could be used to
run arbitrary code on a victim's computer. Such a chrome
injection vulnerability was reported by Mozilla
developers Ben Turner and Dan Veditz who showed that a
XUL based SSL error page was not properly sanitizing
inputs and could be used to run arbitrary code with
chrome privileges. (MFSA 2008-35 / CVE-2008-2933)"
);
# http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2005/mfsa2005-53.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2005-53/"
);
# http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-34.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2008-34/"
);
# http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-35.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2008-35/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2785.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2933.html"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply ZYPP patch number 5450.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cwe_id(20, 189);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/06/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/07/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/07/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) exit(0, "Local checks are not enabled.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release")) exit(0, "The host is not running SuSE.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) exit(1, "Could not obtain the list of installed packages.");
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) exit(1, "Failed to determine the architecture type.");
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") exit(1, "Local checks for SuSE 10 on the '"+cpu+"' architecture have not been implemented.");
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:1, reference:"MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.16-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:1, reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-2.0.0.16-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:2, reference:"MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.16-0.4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:2, reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-2.0.0.16-0.4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.16-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-2.0.0.16-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:2, reference:"MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.16-0.4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:2, reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-2.0.0.16-0.4")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else exit(0, "The host is not affected.");
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2785
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2933
support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2785.html
support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2933.html
www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2005-53/
www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2008-34/
www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2008-35/