Title: Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Proxy Auto-Configuration File Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey are web browser applications.
The applications are prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability that arises when parsing specially crafted regular expressions contained in Proxy Auto-configuration (PAC) files.
An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting victim to view a malicious webpage.
Successful exploits will allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application, which can compromise the application and possibly the computer. Failed attacks may cause denial-of-service conditions.
NOTE: This issue was previously covered in BID 36843 (Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey MFSA 2009-52 through -64 Multiple Vulnerabilities), but has been assigned its own record to better document it.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 5.0
- Debian Linux 5.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 5.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 5.0 arm
- Debian Linux 5.0 armel
- Debian Linux 5.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 5.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 5.0 mips
- Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 5.0 powerpc
- Debian Linux 5.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 5.0 sparc
- MandrakeSoft Enterprise Server 5
- MandrakeSoft Enterprise Server 5 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2009.1
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2009.1 x86_64
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.0
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3
- 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 1.1.10
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.11
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.12
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.13
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.14
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.15
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.15
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.16
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.17
- 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
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.7
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.8
- Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.9
- RedHat Desktop 3.0.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 server
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 client
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation 5 client
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
- RedHat Fedora 11
References:
- Mozilla: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-55
- Mozilla Foundation: Mozilla Homepage
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