Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0298 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.1 and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read sensitive data via unknown attack vectors that trigger an out-of-bounds read.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 4 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS9_120671.NASL description Mozilla 1.7 for Solaris 8 and 9. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Aug/29/08 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 24403 published 2007-02-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24403 title Solaris 9 (sparc) : 120671-08 code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text in this plugin was # extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(24403); script_version("1.26"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:25"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-4134", "CVE-2006-0292", "CVE-2006-0293", "CVE-2006-0294", "CVE-2006-0295", "CVE-2006-0296", "CVE-2006-0297", "CVE-2006-0298", "CVE-2006-0299", "CVE-2006-0748", "CVE-2006-0749", "CVE-2006-0884", "CVE-2006-1529", "CVE-2006-1530", "CVE-2006-1531", "CVE-2006-1723", "CVE-2006-1724", "CVE-2006-1725", "CVE-2006-1726", "CVE-2006-1727", "CVE-2006-1728", "CVE-2006-1729", "CVE-2006-1730", "CVE-2006-1731", "CVE-2006-1732", "CVE-2006-1733", "CVE-2006-1734", "CVE-2006-1735", "CVE-2006-1736", "CVE-2006-1737", "CVE-2006-1738", "CVE-2006-1739", "CVE-2006-1740", "CVE-2006-1741", "CVE-2006-1742", "CVE-2006-1790", "CVE-2006-2779", "CVE-2006-2780", "CVE-2006-5463", "CVE-2006-6498", "CVE-2006-6499"); script_name(english:"Solaris 9 (sparc) : 120671-08"); script_summary(english:"Check for patch 120671-08"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote host is missing Sun Security Patch number 120671-08" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Mozilla 1.7 for Solaris 8 and 9. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Aug/29/08" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://getupdates.oracle.com/readme/120671-08" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"You should install this patch for your system to be up-to-date." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Firefox location.QueryInterface() Code Execution'); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true"); script_cwe_id(20, 79, 94, 119, 189, 264, 399); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:sun:solaris"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/08/29"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/02/18"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Solaris Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Solaris/showrev"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("solaris.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (solaris_check_patch(release:"5.9", arch:"sparc", patch:"120671-08", obsoleted_by:"", package:"SUNWmoznav", version:"1.7,REV=10.2005.12.08") < 0) flag++; if (solaris_check_patch(release:"5.9", arch:"sparc", patch:"120671-08", obsoleted_by:"", package:"SUNWmozmail", version:"1.7,REV=10.2005.12.08") < 0) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:solaris_get_report()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");NASL family Windows NASL id SEAMONKEY_10.NASL description The remote Windows host is using SeaMonkey, an alternative web browser and application suite. The installed version of SeaMonkey contains various security issues, some of which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the affected host subject to the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20863 published 2006-02-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20863 title SeaMonkey < 1.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(20863); script_version("1.18"); script_cve_id("CVE-2005-4134", "CVE-2006-0292", "CVE-2006-0293", "CVE-2006-0294", "CVE-2006-0295", "CVE-2006-0296", "CVE-2006-0297", "CVE-2006-0298", "CVE-2006-0299", "CVE-2006-0749", "CVE-2006-1731", "CVE-2006-1732", "CVE-2006-1733", "CVE-2006-1734", "CVE-2006-1735", "CVE-2006-1736", "CVE-2006-1739", "CVE-2006-1740", "CVE-2006-1741", "CVE-2006-1742"); script_bugtraq_id(16476); script_name(english:"SeaMonkey < 1.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks for SeaMonkey < 1.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A web browser on the remote host is prone to multiple flaws." ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The remote Windows host is using SeaMonkey, an alternative web browser and application suite. The installed version of SeaMonkey contains various security issues, some of which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the affected host subject to the user's privileges." ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-01/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-02/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-03/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-04/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-06/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-07/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-08/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-09/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-10/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-11/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-12/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-13/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-14/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-15/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-16/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-17/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-18/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2006-19/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to SeaMonkey 1.0 or later." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Firefox location.QueryInterface() Code Execution'); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true"); script_cwe_id(20, 79, 119, 264, 399); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2006/02/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value: "2006/02/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2005/12/07"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/27 18:38:15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Windows"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_dependencies("mozilla_org_installed.nasl"); script_require_keys("SeaMonkey/Version"); exit(0); } include("misc_func.inc"); ver = read_version_in_kb("SeaMonkey/Version"); if (isnull(ver)) exit(0); if ( ver[0] < 1 || (ver[0] == 1 && ver[1] == 0 && ver[4] =~ "^[ab]$") ) security_hole(get_kb_item("SMB/transport"));NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS9_X86_120672.NASL description Mozilla 1.7_x86 for Solaris 8 and 9. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/02/08 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 23773 published 2006-12-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/23773 title Solaris 9 (x86) : 120672-08 NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS8_X86_120672.NASL description Mozilla 1.7_x86 for Solaris 8 and 9. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/02/08 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 23772 published 2006-12-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/23772 title Solaris 8 (x86) : 120672-08 NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS10_X86_119116.NASL description Mozilla 1.7_x86 patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Aug/05/09 This plugin has been deprecated and either replaced with individual 119116 patch-revision plugins, or deemed non-security related. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2018-07-30 plugin id 22987 published 2006-11-06 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=22987 title Solaris 10 (x86) : 119116-35 (deprecated) NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_1501.NASL description The remote Windows host is using Firefox, an alternative web browser. The installed version of Firefox contains various security issues, some of which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the affected host subject to the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20842 published 2006-02-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20842 title Firefox < 1.5.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS8_120671.NASL description Mozilla 1.7 for Solaris 8 and 9. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Aug/29/08 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 24395 published 2007-02-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24395 title Solaris 8 (sparc) : 120671-08 NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS10_119115.NASL description Mozilla 1.7 patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/13/14 This plugin has been deprecated and either replaced with individual 119115 patch-revision plugins, or deemed non-security related. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2018-07-30 plugin id 22954 published 2006-11-06 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=22954 title Solaris 10 (sparc) : 119115-36 (deprecated)
Oval
| accepted | 2009-11-09T04:01:14.818-05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| description | The XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.1 and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read sensitive data via unknown attack vectors that trigger an out-of-bounds read. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:677 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| submitted | 2006-02-07T06:13:00.000-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title | Mozilla XML Parser Read Beyond Buffer Bug | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| version | 5 |
Saint
| bid | 16476 |
| description | Mozilla Firefox QueryInterface method memory corruption |
| id | web_client_firefox |
| osvdb | 22893 |
| title | firefox_queryinterface |
| type | client |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18700
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18704
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22065
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015570
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-07.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16476
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0413
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24436
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A677