PT-2014-4209 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox+3

Published 2014-03-18 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2014-1498

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 28.0 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.25

Description The issue is related to the crypto.generateCRMFRequest method, which does not properly validate a certain key type. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by triggering the generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve ec-dual-use algorithm.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 28.0, update to version 28.0 or later to resolve the issue. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.25, update to version 2.25 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-347

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1407

ALT-PU-2014-1411

BDU:2014-00317

BDU:2014-00318

CVE-2014-1498

MGASA-2014-0146

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_0419-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_0448-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_0584-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Seamonkey

Suse

References · 3108

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_tostring_console_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proto_crmfrequest.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_webidl_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_attribchildremoved.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_svg_plugin.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_interleaved_write.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_nssvgvalue.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_reduceright.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_xmlserializer.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/vlad902/annotated-fbi-tbb-exploit · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/argp/cve-2011-3026-firefox · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/johnwchadwick/cve-2009-3555-test-server · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mk219533/CVE-2010-1205 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2014-00305 · Security Note