Bug Id
6853405

Product
OpenSolaris

Date of Resolved Release
04-Aug-2009

Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Firefox Versions Prior to 3.5 May Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code or Access to Unauthorized Data

1. Impact

Multiple security vulnerabilities with varying impacts affect Firefox (see firefox(1)) versions prior to 3.5 as shipped with OpenSolaris. These vulnerabilities may allow an unprivileged remote user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) crash to the Firefox application or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system where Firefox is being run. Futher vulnerabilities may allow a remote user to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exploits and to gain unauthorized access to cookie data stored in the application, which could allow reading or modifying of data from other web sites or to obtain sensitive data stored in those cookies.

The following URL provides additional details about the vulnerabilities addressed in Firefox versions prior to 3.5:


The following Mozilla advisories describe the vulnerabilities:


The following are the CVE identifiers that pertain to these security issues:


2. Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC platform

• OpenSolaris builds snv_95 through snv_118

x86 platform

• OpenSolaris builds snv_95 through snv_118

Note: Solaris 8 and 9 do not include Firefox and therefore are not impacted by these issues. Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris prior to snv_95 do not ship Firefox 3.x, but the Firefox version 2.x that is included may be impacted, in which case a separate Sun Alert describing the resolution for Solaris 10 will be published.

OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build from which it was derived. The base build can be derived as follows:

$ uname -v
snv_95

3. Symptoms

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

4. Workaround

The issues described in MFSA-2009-37, MFSA-2009-40, and some of the issues in MFSA-2009-24 and MFSA2009-34 can be worked around by disabling JavaScript (until a version of these fixes can be installed) by doing the following:


5. Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• OpenSolaris build snv_119 or later

x86 Platform

• OpenSolaris build snv_119 or later

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see 1009886.1.

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