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Home > Products and services > CSIRTUK advisories > Advisories archive > June 2007 > Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-12

June 2007

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-12

ID: 139
Ref: 81/2007
Date: 30 June 2007:20:46:27
Version: 1

Title: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-12
Abstract: Fixes for various Mozilla products
Vendors affected: Mozilla
Applications affected: Mozilla

Impact: Critical
Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey

Fixed in:
Firefox 2.0.0.4
Firefox 1.5.0.12
Thunderbird 2.0.0.4
Thunderbird 1.5.0.12
SeaMonkey 1.0.9
SeaMonkey 1.1.2

Description
As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.4 and 1.5.0.12 update releases Mozilla
developers fixed many bugs to improve the stability of the product. Some
of these crashes that showed evidence of memory corruption under certain
circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of
these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

Note: Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be
vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the
default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript
in mail. Without further investigation we cannot rule out the
possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare
memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript, such
as large images.

Workaround
Upgrade to the fixed versions. Do not enable JavaScript in Thunderbird
or the mail portions of SeaMonkey.

References
Boris Zbarsky, Eli Friedman, Georgi Guninski, Jesse Ruderman, Martijn
Wargers and Olli Pettay reported crashes in the layout engine.

CVE-2007-2867
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D377216
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D370360
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D372285
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D306902
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D348492
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D369150
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D369249
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D372237
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D372376
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D376223
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D336574
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D336744
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D336994
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D362708
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D369542
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D371124
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D378273
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D378325
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D374584
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D375196


Brendan Eich, Igor Bukanov, Jesse Ruderman, moz_bug_r_a4 and Wladimir
Palant reported potential memory corruption in the JavaScript engine.

CVE-2007-2868
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D351102
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D369666
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D367561
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D370101
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D370488
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D375183
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D367630
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D375711
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D367121
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D369714
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