Title: Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Windows.Location Property HTTP Referer Header Spoofing Weakness
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey are prone to a weakness that allows an attacker to spoof HTTP Referer headers. This issue stems from a race condition when setting the value of 'window.location. The weakness arises because of a small timing difference when using a modal 'alert()' dialog, which allows users to generate fake HTTP Referer headers.
Specifically, when the 'window.location' value is changed, the Referer header is supposed to be set to the address of the content that initiated the script. However, the address is set to the window where the script is being executed. When the referer is set to the current URI of the script's window, it is no longer the correct one.
An attacker can exploit this issue to spoof HTTP Referer headers. This may cause other security mechanisms that rely on this data to fail or to return misleading information. Such security mechanisms may include protection against cross-site request-forgery vulnerabilities.
This issue affects versions prior to Mozilla FireFox 2.0.0.10 and Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.7.
Affected Products:
- Avaya Intuity AUDIX LX 2.0
- Avaya Messaging Application Server MM 3.1
- Avaya Messaging Storage Server MSS 3.0
- Debian Linux 4.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 4.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 4.0 arm
- Debian Linux 4.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 4.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 4.0 mips
- Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc
- Debian Linux 4.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 4.0 sparc
- Foresight Linux Foresight Linux 1.1
- Gentoo Linux
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2007.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2007.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2007.1
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2007.1 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.0 x86_64
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0 12
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0 beta 1
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0 beta 2
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.10
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 RC2
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 RC3
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 beta 1
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0 dev
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.1
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.2
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.3
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.5
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.6
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.7
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.8
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.9
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.99
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 beta
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.1
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.2
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.3
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.4
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.5
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.6
- Netscape Navigator 9.0
- Netscape Navigator 9.0.0 1
- Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.2
- Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3
- RedHat Advanced Workstation for the Itanium Processor 2.1.0
- RedHat Desktop 3.0.0
- RedHat Desktop 4.0.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 server
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4.5.z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4.6.z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 client
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation 5 client
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4.5.z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4.6.z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Application 5 server
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 server
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
- RedHat Fedora 7
- RedHat Fedora 8
- S.u.S.E. Linux 10.0 x86
- S.u.S.E. Linux 10.0 x86-64
- S.u.S.E. Linux 10.1 x86
- S.u.S.E. Linux 10.1 x86-64
- S.u.S.E. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1
- S.u.S.E. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
- S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.2
- S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.3
- Slackware Linux 10.2.0
- Slackware Linux 11.0
- Slackware Linux 12.0
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.10 sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.04 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.04 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.04 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.04 sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.10 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.10 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.10 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.10 sparc
- rPath rPath Linux 1
References:
- Avaya: ASA-2007-492 - seamonkey security update (RHSA-2007-1084)
- Avaya: ASA-2007-494 - Firefox security update (RHSA-2007-1082)
- Mandriva: MDKSA-2007:246 - mozilla-firefox
- Mozilla: Mozilla Firefox Homepage
- Mozilla: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-39
- Mozilla: SeaMonkey Homepage
- Netscape: What's New in Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.4
- Red Hat: RHSA-2007:1082-5 - Critical: firefox security update
- Red Hat: RHSA-2007:1083-5 thunderbird security update
- Red Hat: Red Hat Linux Security Advisory RHSA-2007:1084-8
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