Overview
The Mozilla layout engine contains multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, or create a denial of service condition.
Description
The Mozilla Foundation supports several Open Source projects, including the Mozilla, Seamonkey, and Firefox web browsers. The Thunderbird email client is also a Mozilla product. These products use the Mozilla layout engine to render HTML formatted text. The Mozilla layout engine contains multiple vulnerabilities. An attacker may be able to exploit these vulnerabilties by convincing a user to connect to a specially crafted website or viewing an HTML formatted email. For more information refer to Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-01. |
Impact
A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or create a denial of service condition. |
Solution
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
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References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-01.html
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird
- http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24252/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24320/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24328/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24293/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24327/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24343/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24333/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24393/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24352/
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-164.shtml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24406/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24432/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24410/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24389/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24455/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24456/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24457/
Acknowledgements
Mozilla credits Jesse Ruderman, Martijn Wargers and Olli Pettay for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2007-0775 |
| Severity Metric: | 2.84 |
| Date Public: | 2007-02-23 |
| Date First Published: | 2007-02-26 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2007-03-08 14:55 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 56 |