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Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey XSLT Memory Corruption Vulnerability

VUPEN ID VUPEN/ADV-2009-0853
CVE ID CVE-2009-1169
 
CWE ID Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
CVSS V2 Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Rated as Critical 
Impact Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Authentication Level Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Access Vector Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Release Date 2009-03-26
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Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error within the "txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc()" function when processing specially crafted XSLT Transforms, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected browser or potentially execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.7 and prior
Mozilla SeaMonkey version 1.1.15 and prior

Solution 

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.8 :
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Upgrade to Mozilla SeaMonkey version 1.1.16 :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0853
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485217
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-12.html

Credits 

Vulnerability reported by Guido Landi.

Changelog 

2009-03-26 : Initial release
2009-03-27 : Updated Solution

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Monthly Statistics 

 

 VUPEN Security Advisories By Criticality: Aug 2010


  Critical Risk

: 0%

  High Risk
: 0%

  Moderate Risk
: 0%

  Low Risk
: 100%

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