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Sid
20727

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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:
The user interface event dispatcher in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a series of keypress, click, onkeydown, onkeyup, onmousedown, and onmouseup events.  NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 is also affected.

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Affected Systems:
mozilla firefox 3.0.3

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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-2008-4324:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-4324
  
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