Rule

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Sid
15873

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in Firefox.

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Impact:
Denial of Service.  Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.13, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, via a crafted web page that calls window.open with an invalid character in the URL, makes document.write calls to the resulting object, and then calls the stop method during the loading of the error page.

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Affected Systems:
Mozilla Firefox 0.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.10
Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.2
Mozilla Firefox 0.3
Mozilla Firefox 0.4
Mozilla Firefox 0.5
Mozilla Firefox 0.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.6.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.7
Mozilla Firefox 0.7.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Mozilla Firefox 0.9
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3
Mozilla Firefox 0.9_rc
Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8
Mozilla Firefox 1.4.1
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.10
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12
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 1.5.0.7
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.1
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.3
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.4
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.5
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.6
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.7
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.8
Mozilla Firefox 1.8
Mozilla Firefox 2.0
Mozilla Firefox 2.0
Mozilla Firefox 2.0
Mozilla Firefox 2.0
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.18
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.19
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.20
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.21
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 Firefox 2.0_.1
Mozilla Firefox 2.0_.10
Mozilla Firefox 2.0_.4
Mozilla Firefox 2.0_.5
Mozilla Firefox 2.0_.6
Mozilla Firefox 2.0_.7
Mozilla Firefox 2.0_.9
Mozilla Firefox 2.0_8
Mozilla Firefox 3.0
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 3.0.2
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 3.1
Mozilla Firefox 3.2
Mozilla Firefox 3.2
Mozilla Firefox 3.2
Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2009-2654:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2654
  
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