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Article ID : 1000076.1
Article Type : Sun Alerts (SURE)
Last reviewed : 2007-04-22
Audience : PUBLIC
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Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Layout Engine for Solaris 8, 9 and 10

Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Product
Mozilla v1.7
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System
Solaris 8 Operating System

Bug Id
6508395

Date of Workaround Release
18-APR-2007

Date of Resolved Release
23-APR-2007

Impact

Multiple security vulnerabilities in the Layout Engine in Mozilla 1.7 may allow a remote user who is able to create pages that are viewed with the Mozilla browser to crash the application or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Mozilla. The ability of a remote user to cause the Mozilla application to crash is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

These issues are described in the following documents:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-68.html

CVE-2006-6497 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6497

CERT VU# 606260 at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/606260


Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) without patch 120671-05
  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) without patch 119115-26

x86 Platform

  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) without patch 120672-05
  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) without patch 119116-26

Note: Mozilla 1.4 may be vulnerable to one or more of these security issues. Customers are advised to upgrade to Mozilla 1.7 to obtain these security fixes.

To determine the version of Mozilla on a Solaris system, the following command can be run:

    % /usr/sfw/bin/mozilla -version
    Mozilla 1.7, (Sun Java Desktop System), build 2005031721

Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issues have been exploited.


Workaround

There is no workaround for this issue. Please see the Resolution section below.


Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) with patch 120671-05 or later
  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) with patch 119115-26 or later

x86 Platform

  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 8 and 9) with patch 120672-05 or later
  • Mozilla 1.7 (for Solaris 10) with patch 119116-26 or later


Modification History
Date: 23-APR-2007
  • Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections
  • State: Resolved


References

120671-05
120672-05
119115-26
119116-26




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