[ GLSA 200712-21 ] Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200712-21)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: December 29, 2007
Bug(s): #198965, #200909
ID: 200712-21

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Seamonkey.

Background

Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform web browser from Mozilla. SeaMonkey is a free, cross-platform Internet suite.

Affected Packages

Package: www-client/mozilla-firefox
Vulnerable: < 2.0.0.11
Unaffected: >= 2.0.0.11
Architectures: All supported architectures

Package: www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
Vulnerable: < 2.0.0.11
Unaffected: >= 2.0.0.11
Architectures: All supported architectures

Package: www-client/seamonkey
Vulnerable: < 1.1.7
Unaffected: >= 1.1.7
Architectures: All supported architectures

Package: www-client/seamonkey-bin
Vulnerable: < 1.1.7
Unaffected: >= 1.1.7
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Jesse Ruderman and Petko D. Petkov reported that the jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey does not properly check MIME types (CVE-2007-5947). Gregory Fleischer reported that the window.location property can be used to generate a fake HTTP Referer (CVE-2007-5960). Multiple memory errors have also been reported (CVE-2007-5959).

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser and conduct Cross-Site-Scripting or Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: