Bug 492211 (CVE-2009-1169) - CVE-2009-1169 Firefox XSLT memory corruption issue
Summary: CVE-2009-1169 Firefox XSLT memory corruption issue
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-1169
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 492213 492214 492215 492216 492217 492236 492237
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-25 22:13 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2022-04-20 13:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 16:31:55 UTC
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PoC posted on milw0rm (599 bytes, application/x-gzip)
2009-03-26 03:56 UTC, Vincent Danen 		no flags Details
crashtest posted on bugzilla.mozilla.org (1.48 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-03-26 03:58 UTC, Vincent Danen 		no flags Details
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0397 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2009-03-27 23:35:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0398 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: seamonkey security update 2009-03-27 23:23:39 UTC

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2009-03-26 03:55:13 UTC 
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in how Mozilla Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform.  A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.

A proof-of-concept was made public earlier today: http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8285
Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2009-03-26 03:56:14 UTC 
Created attachment 336748 [details]
PoC posted on milw0rm
Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2009-03-26 03:58:33 UTC 
Created attachment 336749 [details]
crashtest posted on bugzilla.mozilla.org

The upstream bug is this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485217
Comment 8 Tomas Hoger 2009-03-27 17:07:46 UTC 
Mitre CVE description:

CVE-2009-1169:
The txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc function in Mozilla Firefox
3.0.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) via an XML file with a crafted XSLT transform.
Comment 9 Josh Bressers 2009-03-27 23:04:26 UTC 
This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-12.html
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-27 23:23:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2009:0398 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0398.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-27 23:35:09 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0397 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0397.html
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2009-03-30 17:23:36 UTC 
seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2009-03-31 20:29:38 UTC 
seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2009-03-31 20:38:06 UTC 
seamonkey-1.1.15-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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