Advisory Details

July 20th, 2010

Mozilla Firefox CSS font-face Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-10-133
ZDI-CAN-831

CVE ID CVE-2010-2752
CVSS SCORE 10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS Mozilla Firefox
AFFECTED PRODUCTS 3.6.x
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['10024']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within handling of references to external font resources. A value is used as a 16 bit integer in an array allocation and later as 32 bit when iterating over and then populating these fields. By creating enough references, a remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the browser.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS Mozilla Firefox has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-39.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2010-06-23 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-07-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT J23 (http://twitter.com/HansJ23)
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