68905 : Mozilla Firefox DOM Insertion document.write() Unspecified Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
27	1137	about 1 year ago	about 1 year ago	52 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2010-10-25	2010-10-27

Description

Firefox is prone to an overflow condition. The application fails to properly sanitize input caused by interactions between DOM insertions and the document.write() function resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted website, a context-dependent attacker can potentially cause arbitrary code execution.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Discovered in the Wild
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.5.15 or 3.6.12 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Mozilla Organization	Firefox	3.6.11
		3.5.14

References

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Credit

Morten Kråkvik

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-10-28 | Disagree?

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