Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Firefox PKCS11 Module Installation Code Execution (CVE-2009-3076)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-116
Date Published: 12 May 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 12 May, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-3076
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Mozilla Firefox is a web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation. The browser is capable of interpreting and rendering many types of content published on the Internet, including various versions of HTML, XML, XUL, JavaScript, various graphics formats, and so on. The browser runs on the Windows, Macintosh, Unix and Linux-based platforms. Mozilla Firefox supports advanced security authentication and protocol with Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS). A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Mozilla Firefox. The vulnerability is due to improper user messaging when using PKCS11 Module to load DLLs. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by customizing the dialog message to mislead a user into loading a malicious DLL. In a successful attack, where arbitrary code is injected and executed on the vulnerable target host, the behavior of the target system is dependent on the malicious code. Note that any code executed by the attacker runs with the privileges of the logged in user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Mozilla Firefox PKCS11 Module Installation Code Execution protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Mozilla Firefox PKCS11 module installation code execution

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