Vulnerability Note VU#607267

Mozilla Firefox code execution vulnerability

Overview

Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.15 contain a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code.

I. Description

Versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 2.0.0.15 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. Browsers such as SeaMonkey and Epiphany that use Mozilla's rendering engine may also be affected.

Per Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-33:

Security research firm Astabis reported a vulnerability in Firefox 2 submitted through the iSIGHT Partners GVP Program by Greg McManus, Primary GVP Researcher. The reported crash in Mozilla's block reflow code could be used by an attacker to crash the browser and run arbitrary code on the victim's computer.

This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 3.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause a vulnerable browser to crash.

III. Solution

Upgrade

Per Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-33 this issue is addressed in Firefox 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey 1.1.10.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Updated
Mozilla	Vulnerable	2-Jul-2008

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-33.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439735

Credit

Mozilla credits Security research firm Astabis for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public	07/02/2008
Date First Published	07/02/2008 04:04:38 PM
Date Last Updated	07/03/2008
CERT Advisory
CVE Name	CVE-2008-2811
Metric	7.17
Document Revision	8

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