Advisory Details

June 23rd, 2010

Mozilla Firefox XSLT Sort Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-10-113
ZDI-CAN-747

CVE ID CVE-2010-1199
CVSS SCORE 10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS Mozilla Firefox
AFFECTED PRODUCTS 3.6.x
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['9910']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to 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 or otherwise render a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within a particular XSLT transformation when applied to an XML document. If a large number of elements have this transformation applied to them, the application will misallocate a buffer. Upon usage of this buffer the application will copy more data than allocated thus causing an overflow. This can lead to code execution under the context of the application.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS Mozilla Firefox has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-30.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2010-03-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-06-23 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Martin Barbella
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