PT-2010-1976 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Georgi Guninski · Published 2010-02-17 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2010-0162

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.x through 3.0.17 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x through 3.5.7 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document, due to improper support for the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.x through 3.0.17, update to version 3.0.18 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x through 3.5.7, update to version 3.5.8 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.3, update to version 2.0.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-0162

DSA-1999-1

RHSA-2010:0112

RHSA-2010_0112

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

References · 27

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-896-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0112.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:042 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-05.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0405 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035346.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37242 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035367.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0162 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035426.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1999 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-895-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0171 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1571 · Note