Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200712-21 / firefox seamonkey
Release Date	December 29, 2007
Latest Revision	December 29, 2007: 01
Impact	normal
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
www-client/mozilla-firefox	< 2.0.0.11	>= 2.0.0.11	All supported architectures
www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin	< 2.0.0.11	>= 2.0.0.11	All supported architectures
www-client/seamonkey	< 1.1.7	>= 1.1.7	All supported architectures
www-client/seamonkey-bin	< 1.1.7	>= 1.1.7	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #198965, #200909

Synopsis

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

2. Impact Information

Background

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

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.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11"

All Mozilla Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.2: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.11"

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.3: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-1.1.7"

All SeaMonkey binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.4: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1.7"

4. References

Updated December 29, 2007

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