Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0527 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Firefox 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via plugins that load "privileged content" into frames, as demonstrated using certain XUL events when a user drags a scrollbar two times, aka "Firescrolling."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200503-10.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-10 (Mozilla Firefox: Various vulnerabilities) The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Mozilla Firefox: Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it (CAN-2005-0232, CAN-2005-0527) Michael Krax also reported potential spoofing or cross-site-scripting issues through overlapping windows, image drag-and-drop, and by dropping javascript: links on tabs (CAN-2005-0230, CAN-2005-0231, CAN-2005-0591) Daniel de Wildt and Gael Delalleau discovered a memory overwrite in a string library (CAN-2005-0255) Wind Li discovered a possible heap overflow in UTF8 to Unicode conversion (CAN-2005-0592) Eric Johanson reported that Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) features allow homograph attacks (CAN-2005-0233) Mook, Doug Turner, Kohei Yoshino and M. Deaudelin reported various ways of spoofing the SSL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17276 published 2005-03-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17276 title GLSA-200503-10 : Mozilla Firefox: Various vulnerabilities NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2005-384.NASL description Updated Mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla displays the secure site icon. It is possible that a malicious website could display the secure site icon along with incorrect certificate information. (CVE-2005-0143 CVE-2005-0593) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles synthetic middle click events. It is possible for a malicious web page to steal the contents of a victims clipboard. (CVE-2005-0146) Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla handles temporary files. A local user could view sensitive temporary information or delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2005-0142 CVE-2005-0578) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles pop-up windows. It is possible for a malicious website to control the content in an unrelated site last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 21930 published 2006-07-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21930 title CentOS 3 : mozilla (CESA-2005:384) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200503-30.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-30 (Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities) The following vulnerabilities were found and fixed in the Mozilla Suite: Mark Dowd from ISS X-Force reported an exploitable heap overrun in the GIF processing of obsolete Netscape extension 2 (CAN-2005-0399) Michael Krax reported that plugins can be used to load privileged content and trick the user to interact with it (CAN-2005-0232, CAN-2005-0527) Michael Krax also reported potential spoofing or cross-site-scripting issues through overlapping windows, image or scrollbar drag-and-drop, and by dropping javascript: links on tabs (CAN-2005-0230, CAN-2005-0231, CAN-2005-0401, CAN-2005-0591) Daniel de Wildt and Gael Delalleau discovered a memory overwrite in a string library (CAN-2005-0255) Wind Li discovered a possible heap overflow in UTF8 to Unicode conversion (CAN-2005-0592) Eric Johanson reported that Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) features allow homograph attacks (CAN-2005-0233) Mook, Doug Turner, Kohei Yoshino and M. Deaudelin reported various ways of spoofing the SSL last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17619 published 2005-03-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17619 title GLSA-200503-30 : Mozilla Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-384.NASL description Updated Mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla displays the secure site icon. It is possible that a malicious website could display the secure site icon along with incorrect certificate information. (CVE-2005-0143 CVE-2005-0593) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles synthetic middle click events. It is possible for a malicious web page to steal the contents of a victims clipboard. (CVE-2005-0146) Several bugs were found with the way Mozilla handles temporary files. A local user could view sensitive temporary information or delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2005-0142 CVE-2005-0578) A bug was found in the way Mozilla handles pop-up windows. It is possible for a malicious website to control the content in an unrelated site last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18162 published 2005-04-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18162 title RHEL 2.1 / 3 : Mozilla (RHSA-2005:384) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2005-176.NASL description Updated firefox packages that fix various bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. A bug was found in the Firefox string handling functions. If a malicious website is able to exhaust a system last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 17252 published 2005-03-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17252 title RHEL 4 : firefox (RHSA-2005:176) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRAKE_MDKSA-2005-088.NASL description A number of security vulnerabilities were fixed in the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.8 releases. Patches have been backported where appropriate; Corporate 3.0 is receiving the new Mozilla Suite 1.7.8 release. The following issues have been fixed in both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Suite : - A flaw in the JavaScript regular expression handling could lead to a disclosure of browser memory, potentially exposing private data from web pages viewed, passwords, or similar data sent to other web pages. It could also crash the browser itself (CVE-2005-0989, MFSA 2005-33) - With manual Plugin install, it was possible for the Plugin to execute JavaScript code with the installing user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 18277 published 2005-05-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18277 title Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDKSA-2005:088) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_CBFDE1CD87EB11D9AA180001020EED82.NASL description A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports : Plugins (such as flash) can be used to load privileged content into a frame. Once loaded various spoofs can be applied to get the user to interact with the privileged content. Michael Krax last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 19121 published 2005-07-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/19121 title FreeBSD : mozilla -- arbitrary code execution vulnerability (cbfde1cd-87eb-11d9-aa18-0001020eed82)
Oval
accepted 2007-05-09T16:10:38.529-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Robert L. Hollis organization ThreatGuard, Inc. name Matthew Wojcik organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation name Jonathan Baker organization The MITRE Corporation
description Firefox 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via plugins that load "privileged content" into frames, as demonstrated using certain XUL events when a user drags a scrollbar two times, aka "Firescrolling." family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100031 status accepted submitted 2005-08-16T12:00:00.000-04:00 title Mozilla Privileged Content Loading Vulnerability version 6 accepted 2013-04-29T04:15:40.769-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Aharon Chernin organization SCAP.com, LLC name Dragos Prisaca organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782 comment CentOS Linux 3.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651 comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831 comment CentOS Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636 comment Oracle Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
description Firefox 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via plugins that load "privileged content" into frames, as demonstrated using certain XUL events when a user drags a scrollbar two times, aka "Firescrolling." family unix id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11772 status accepted submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 title Firefox 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via plugins that load "privileged content" into frames, as demonstrated using certain XUL events when a user drags a scrollbar two times, aka "Firescrolling." version 26
Redhat
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References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110935267500395&w=2
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013301
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
- http://www.mikx.de/?p=11
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-27.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100031
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11772