Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey Location Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

BID:41968

Info

Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey Location Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 41968
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2010-2751
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 20 2010 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 2015 08:45AM
Credit: Michal Zalewski
Vulnerable: SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
+ Linux kernel 2.6.5
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
+ Linux kernel 2.6.5
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 11 SP1
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 11
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 10 SP3
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1
+ Linux kernel 2.6.5
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3
SuSE openSUSE 11.3
Sun Solaris 11 Express
Sun Solaris 10_x86
Sun Solaris 10_sparc
S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.2
S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation 5 client
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4
RedHat Desktop 3.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 client
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.5
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.4
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.3
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.2
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.1
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.10
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1
Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Mozilla Firefox 3.6
Debian Linux 5.0 sparc
Debian Linux 5.0 s/390
Debian Linux 5.0 powerpc
Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel
Debian Linux 5.0 mips
Debian Linux 5.0 m68k
Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 5.0 hppa
Debian Linux 5.0 armel
Debian Linux 5.0 arm
Debian Linux 5.0 amd64
Debian Linux 5.0 alpha
Debian Linux 5.0
Avaya Messaging Storage Server MM3.0
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 5.2
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 5.1
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 5.0
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 4.0
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 3.1 SP1
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 3.1
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 2.0
Avaya Messaging Storage Server 1.0
Avaya Messaging Storage Server
Avaya Message Networking MN 3.1
Avaya Message Networking 5.2
Avaya Message Networking 3.1
Avaya Message Networking
Avaya IQ 5.1
Avaya IQ 5
Avaya Intuity AUDIX LX R1.1
Avaya Intuity AUDIX LX 2.0 SP2
Avaya Intuity AUDIX LX 2.0 SP1
Avaya Intuity AUDIX LX 2.0
Avaya Intuity AUDIX LX 1.0
Avaya Aura System Manager 6.0 SP1
Avaya Aura System Manager 5.2
Avaya Aura System Manager 1.0
Avaya Aura Session Manager 6.0
Avaya Aura Session Manager 5.2 SP2
Avaya Aura Session Manager 5.2 SP1
Avaya Aura Session Manager 5.2
Avaya Aura Session Manager 1.1
Avaya Aura Session Manager 1.0
Not Vulnerable: Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.7
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.11

Discussion

Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey Location Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey are affected by a spoofing vulnerability.

An attacker could exploit this issue to mislead an unsuspecting user into visiting an insecure website. This may lead to a false sense of trust because the victim will assume that they are visiting a secure site.

The issue has been fixed in:

Firefox 3.6.7 and 3.5.11
SeaMonkey 2.0.6

NOTE: This issue was previously covered in BID 41824 (Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey MFSA 2010-34 Through -47 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities), but has been assigned its own record to better document it.

Exploit / POC

Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey Location Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting user into visiting a malicious webpage.

Solution / Fix

Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey Location Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.


Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64

Debian Linux 5.0 alpha

Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel

Debian Linux 5.0 armel

Debian Linux 5.0

S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.3

Debian Linux 5.0 mips

Debian Linux 5.0 sparc

S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.1

Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32

Debian Linux 5.0 s/390

Debian Linux 5.0 hppa

Debian Linux 5.0 m68k

Debian Linux 5.0 arm

Debian Linux 5.0 amd64

S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.2

References

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