Rule

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Sid
17389

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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. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. Complete admin access.

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Detailed Information:
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) nested <option> tags in a select tag, (2) a DOMNodeRemoved mutation event, (3) "Content-implemented tree views," (4) BoxObjects, (5) the XBL implementation, (6) an iframe that attempts to remove itself, which leads to memory corruption.

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Affected Systems:
mozilla firefox 0.10
mozilla firefox 0.10.1
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 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 1.5
mozilla firefox 1.5
mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2
mozilla firefox 1.5.1
mozilla firefox 1.5.2
mozilla firefox 1.5.3
mozilla firefox Preview release

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Simple. Exploits exist.

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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-2006-2779:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2006-2779
  
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