Bug 530155 (CVE-2009-3372) - CVE-2009-3372 Firefox crash in proxy auto-configuration regexp parsing
Summary: CVE-2009-3372 Firefox crash in proxy auto-configuration regexp parsing
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-3372
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-10-21 17:59 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-11-17 23:31:43 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:1530 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2009-10-27 22:59:02 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2009-10-21 17:59:42 UTC
Security researcher Marco C. reported a flaw in the parsing of regular
expressions used in Proxy Auto-configuration (PAC) files. In certain cases
this flaw could be used by an attacker to crash a victim's browser and run
arbitrary code on their computer.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2009-10-27 22:59:26 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1530 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1530.html

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-10-29 02:58:04 UTC
blam-1.8.5-15.fc11, chmsee-1.0.1-12.fc11, epiphany-2.26.3-5.fc11, epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-7.fc11, evolution-rss-0.1.4-5.fc11, firefox-3.5.4-1.fc11, galeon-2.0.7-17.fc11, gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-8.fc11, gnome-web-photo-0.7-7.fc11, google-gadgets-0.11.1-2.fc11, hulahop-0.4.9-9.fc11, kazehakase-0.5.8-2.fc11.1, Miro-2.5.2-5.fc11, monodevelop-2.0-6.fc11, mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.8.rc1.fc11, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-9.fc11, ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-3.fc11, seahorse-plugins-2.26.2-7.fc11, xulrunner-1.9.1.4-1.fc11, yelp-2.26.0-8.fc11, eclipse-3.4.2-17.fc11, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.6 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-11-04 12:29:49 UTC
blam-1.8.5-15.fc10, epiphany-2.24.3-11.fc10, epiphany-extensions-2.24.3-6.fc10, evolution-rss-0.1.4-5.fc10, firefox-3.0.15-1.fc10, galeon-2.0.7-15.fc10, gecko-sharp2-0.13-13.fc10, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-35.fc10, gnome-web-photo-0.3-23.fc10, google-gadgets-0.10.5-11.fc10, kazehakase-0.5.6-4.fc10.7, Miro-2.0.5-5.fc10, mozvoikko-0.9.5-15.fc10, mugshot-1.2.2-14.fc10, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-14.fc10, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.6, ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-3.fc10, xulrunner-1.9.0.15-1.fc10, yelp-2.24.0-14.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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