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

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	12/29/2007
Bugs:	#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	Vulnerable	Unaffected	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

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:

    # 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:


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

All SeaMonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:


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

All SeaMonkey binary users should upgrade to the latest version:


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

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-21.xml

Concerns?

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