Bug 188794

Summary:	CVE-2006-0749 Mozilla Firefox Tag Order Vulnerability
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	mozilla	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	deisenst, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 02:24:25 UTC

Mozilla Firefox Tag Order Vulnerability


A particular sequence of HTML tags that reliably crash Mozilla clients was
reported  by an anonymous researcher via TippingPoint and the Zero Day
Initiative. The crash is due to memory corruption that can be exploited to
run arbitary code.

Mozilla mail clients will crash on the tag sequence, but without the ability
to run scripts to fill memory with the attack code it may not be possible
for an attacker to exploit this crash.

Workaround

Upgrade to a fixed version.

References

[1]ZDI-06-008
[2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320182
[3]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269095
CVE-2006-0749


This issue also affects FC4

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-04-24 12:50:26 UTC

Lifting embargo

Comment 2 David Eisenstein 2006-06-24 15:28:22 UTC

(See Bug #183547 for the FC4 version of this bug.)

This bug was fixed for FC4 in Fedora Update FEDORA-2006-488
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00019.html>.

This bug was fixed for FC5 in Fedora Update FEDORA-2006-487
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00018.html>.