Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks and potentially to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27725
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27725/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x
http://secunia.com/product/12434/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery
attacks and potentially to compromise a user's system.
1) A race condition when setting the "window.location" property can
be exploited to generate a fake HTTP Referer header, which can be
used to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
2) Some unspecified errors can be exploited to cause memory
corruption and potentially allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.0.10.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.0.10.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Gregory Fleischer
2) Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-38.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-39.html
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