National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2654

Overview

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.13, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, via a crafted web page that calls window.open with an invalid character in the URL, makes document.write calls to the resulting object, and then calls the stop method during the loading of the error page.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-2142

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2142

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-2006

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2006

External Source: BID

Name: 35803

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35803

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-44.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-44.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/28/url-bar-spoofing-vulnerability/

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/28/url-bar-spoofing-vulnerability/

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-8288

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00261.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-8279

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00198.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451898

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451898

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-811-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-811-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022603

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022603

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090727 Re: URL spoofing bug involving Firefox's error pages and document.write

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505265

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090724 URL spoofing bug involving Firefox's error pages and document.write

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505242/30/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1432

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1431

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1431.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1430

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1873

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1873

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 266148

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266148-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36670

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36670

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36669

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36669

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36435

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36435

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36141

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36141

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36126

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36126

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36001

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36001

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9686

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9686

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 56717

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/56717

External Source: MISC

Name: http://es.geocities.com/jplopezy/firefoxspoofing.html

Hyperlink:http://es.geocities.com/jplopezy/firefoxspoofing.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9686

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9686