CVE-2009-1044 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the _moveToEdgeShift XUL tree method which triggers garbage collection on objects that are still in use as demonstrated by Nils during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009.

Reference

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934 http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941 http://cansecwest.com/index.html http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2009/02/25/pwn2own-2009 http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2009/03/18/pwn2own-2009-day-1—safari-internet-explorer-and-firefox-taken-down-by-four-zero-day-exploits http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00008.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10199652-83.html http://osvdb.org/52896 http://secunia.com/advisories/34471 http://secunia.com/advisories/34505 http://secunia.com/advisories/34510 http://secunia.com/advisories/34511 http://secunia.com/advisories/34521 http://secunia.com/advisories/34527 http://secunia.com/advisories/34549 http://secunia.com/advisories/34550 http://secunia.com/advisories/34792 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-113.htm http://twitter.com/tippingpoint1/status/1351635812 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1756 http://www.h-online.com/security/Pwn2Own-2009-Safari-IE-8-and-Firefox-exploited–/news/112889 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:084 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-13.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0397.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0398.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502303/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34181 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021878 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-745-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0864 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-015 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484320 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11368 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01023.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01040.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01077.html