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HistoryOct 28, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

Secunia Research: Mozilla Firefox Floating Point Memory Allocation Vulnerability

2009-10-2800:00:00
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                 Secunia Research 28/10/2009
  • Mozilla Firefox Floating Point Memory Allocation Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Softwareโ€ฆ1
Severityโ€ฆ2
Vendor's Description of Softwareโ€ฆ3
Description of Vulnerabilityโ€ฆ4
Solutionโ€ฆ5
Time Tableโ€ฆ6
Creditsโ€ฆ7
Referencesโ€ฆ8
About Secuniaโ€ฆ9
Verificationโ€ฆ10

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1) Affected Software

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14 and 3.5.3.

NOTE: Prior versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"The award-winning Firefox Web browser has security, speed and new
features that will change the way you use the Web. Donโ€™t settle for
anything less."

Product Link:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an array indexing error while
allocating space for floating point numbers. This can be exploited to
trigger a memory corruption when a specially crafted floating point
number is processed.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution

Update to version 3.0.15 or 3.5.4.

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6) Time Table

14/09/2009 - Vendor notified.
14/09/2009 - Vendor response.
28/10/2009 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2009-1563 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate
customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence
relevant to their specific system configuration:

http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/

Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory
database as a service to the security community and private
individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security.

http://secunia.com/advisories/

Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to
do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the
security and reliability of software in general:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below
to see currently vacant positions:

http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-35/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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