Mozilla Firefox Input Box Type Property Dangling Pointer Vulnerability
ZDI-08-093: November 12th, 2008CVE ID
Affected Vendors
Affected Products
TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection
TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 6618. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page.
The specific flaw exists when a DOM method on a specific HTML form object is called before the object itself has actually completed it's initialization. This will lead to a call of uninitialized data which can result in code execution under the context of the current user.
Vendor Response
Mozilla Firefox has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2008-09-23 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2008-11-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
ling and wushi of team509
