Bug Id
6880675

Product
OpenSolaris

Date of Resolved Release
30-Sep-2009

Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Firefox Versions Before 3.5.3 May Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code, Access to Unauthorized Data, or Denial of Service (DoS)

1. Impact

Multiple security vulnerabilities with varying impacts affect Firefox (see firefox(1)) versions prior to 3.5.3 as shipped with OpenSolaris. These vulnerabilities may allow an unprivileged remote user to crash the Firefox application or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system where Firefox is being run, resulting in a Denial of service (DoS). Further vulnerabilities may allow a remote user to mislead a Firefox user into incorrectly trusting a site by providing a URL in the location bar which may appear to be another URL, or to compromise the cryptography features that are active within the browser application.

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 based upon builds snv_95 through snv_124 

x86 platform

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_95 through snv_124

Notes:

1. The issue described in MFSA2009-48 only impacts versions of Firefox prior to 3.5. This means that OpenSolaris builds snv_119 and later are not impacted by the issue described in MFSA2009-48.

2. 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.

3. 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

Some of the bugs mentioned in MFSA 2009-47 and MFSA 2009-51 can be worked around by disabling JavaScript until a version of these fixes can be installed. JavaScript can be disabled with the following steps:


5. Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_125 or later

x86 Platform

• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_125 or later

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see 1009886.1.

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Modification History
13-Oct-2009: Updated Impact section

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