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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800390
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Firefox XUL Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
Summary:The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox browser and is prone to; XUL Parsing Vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox browser and is prone to
XUL Parsing Vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Error in browser due to improper parsing of XUL (XML) documents while opening
a specially-crafted XML document containing long series of start-tags with no
corresponding end-tags.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause the browser to crash.

Affected Software/OS:
Firefox version 3.0 to 3.0.8 on Linux.

Solution:
Upgrade to Firefox version 3.6.3 or later.

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1232
BugTraq ID: 34522
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34522
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8306
http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2009-Firefox-XUL-0day-PoC.rar
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485941
XForce ISS Database: firefox-xml-dos(49521)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49521
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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