PT-2011-3312 · Mozilla · Firefox+1

Chris Evans · Published 2011-04-15 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-1712

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.5.19 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.17 Mozilla Firefox versions 4.x prior to 4.0.1 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about heap memory addresses via an XML document containing a call to the XSLT generate-id XPath function. This is due to a problem in the txXPathNodeUtils::getXSLTId function.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.5.19, update to version 3.5.19 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.17, update to version 3.6.17 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 4.x prior to 4.0.1, update to version 4.0.1 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.14, update to version 2.0.14 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-1712

Affected Products

Firefox

Seamonkey

References · 6

• 🔥 http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/03/multi-browser-heap-address-leak-in-xslt.html · Exploit
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640339 · Patch
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-18.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1712 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14467 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66836 · Note