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Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2013-24) - Linux

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

General

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox.

Insight

Insight

Web content bypass of COW and SOW security wrappers Mozilla developer Bobby Holley discovered that it was possible to bypass some protections in Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and System Only Wrappers (SOW), making their prototypes mutable by web content. This could be used leak information from chrome objects and possibly allow for arbitrary code execution.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Firefox version(s) below 19.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

The vendor has released an update. Please see the reference(s) for more information.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)