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Gravitron - Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:30 am
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To: BugTraq
Subject: [ GLSA 200501-03 ] Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: Various vulnerabilities
Date: Jan 5 2005 9:09AM
Author: Thierry Carrez <koon gentoo org>
Message-ID: <41DBAEC4.60100@gentoo.org>

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-03
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: Various vulnerabilities
Date: January 05, 2005
Bugs: #76112, #68976, #70749
ID: 200501-03

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Synopsis
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Various vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla-based products,
ranging from a potential buffer overflow and temporary files disclosure
to anti-spoofing issues.

Background
==========

Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader.
Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are respectively the
next-generation browser and mail client from the Mozilla project.

Affected packages
=================

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mozilla < 1.7.5 >= 1.7.5
2 mozilla-bin < 1.7.5 >= 1.7.5
3 mozilla-firefox < 1.0 >= 1.0
4 mozilla-firefox-bin < 1.0 >= 1.0
5 mozilla-thunderbird < 0.9 >= 0.9
6 mozilla-thunderbird-bin < 0.9 >= 0.9
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6 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
===========

Maurycy Prodeus from isec.pl found a potentially exploitable buffer
overflow in the handling of NNTP URLs. Furthermore, Martin (from
ptraced.net) discovered that temporary files in recent versions of
Mozilla-based products were sometimes stored world-readable with
predictable names. The Mozilla Team also fixed a way of spoofing
filenames in Firefox's "What should Firefox do with this file" dialog
boxes and a potential information leak about the existence of local
filenames.

Impact
======

A remote attacker could craft a malicious NNTP link and entice a user
to click it, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code
with the rights of the user running the browser. A local attacker could
leverage the temporary file vulnerability to read the contents of
another user's attachments or downloads. A remote attacker could also
design a malicious web page that would allow to spoof filenames if the
user uses the "Open with..." function in Firefox, or retrieve
information on the presence of specific files in the local filesystem.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All Mozilla users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-www/mozilla-1.7.5"

All Mozilla binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-www/mozilla-bin-1.7.5"

All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0"

All Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-www/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0"

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-0.9"

All Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-0.9"

References
==========

[ 1 ] isec.pl Advisory
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0020-mozilla.txt
[ 2 ] Martin (from ptraced.net) Advisory
http://broadcast.ptraced.net/advisories/008-firefox.thunderbird.txt
[ 3 ] Secunia Advisory SA13144
http://secunia.com/advisories/13144/

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-03.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security gentoo org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Assassin2684 - Sun Jan 09, 2005 8:16 am
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Nice... I use mozilla firefox.

CypherJF - Sun Jan 09, 2005 8:22 am
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Oh the pains.. however. from slashdot, today...

Quote:

"Secunia is reporting on three vulnerabilities in IE6 running on XP SP2. Any of these, in combination with an inappropriate behaviour where the ActiveX Data Object (ADO) model can write arbitrary files, can be exploited to compromise a user's system. Moreover, the vulnerability can be used to delete files from the user's system. Secunia says 'Solution: Use another product.'"

errm can we say, more severe? here are the URLs involved:

http://secunia.com/advisories/12889/

http://www.jmcardle.com/?postid=77

Purge - Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:00 am
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I like the neat mIRC plugin in the Mozilla browser.

SuSE - Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:16 pm
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I think he was praising Mozilla's swift patching.

Cyan~Fire - Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:50 pm
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Hopefully so.

I also really, really like Adblock. I haven't seen a flash banner ad for ages and I have all the major servers blocked.

Smong - Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:11 pm
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Jan 5th? I'm sure I emerged firefox-1.0 before that date so is this guy just finding bugs in old versions and being a scaremonger? Or do they release several versions of firefox over a period of time all named version 1.0?

Cyan~Fire - Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:43 pm
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Oh, it is old versions.

Grav wrote:

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mozilla < 1.7.5 >= 1.7.5
2 mozilla-bin < 1.7.5 >= 1.7.5
3 mozilla-firefox < 1.0 >= 1.0
4 mozilla-firefox-bin < 1.0 >= 1.0
5 mozilla-thunderbird < 0.9 >= 0.9
6 mozilla-thunderbird-bin < 0.9 >= 0.9

is actually a table on the webpage, which isn't very clear in plaintext.

Gravitron - Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:27 pm
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Yes Cypher, well, this will be someone else's problem.
I don't use XP, so it does not affect me, see.

I'm impervious to XP flaws, I'm impervious to firefox flaws.
GG, I win.

CypherJF - Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:21 pm
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I'm sure there is a flaw in your logic. But we wont go into that.