“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozila Firefox, Thuderbird and SeaMonkey which could be exploited by a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose potentially sensitive information, gain escalated privileges, execute arbitrary code and causes denial of service condition on the affected system,” the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-IN) said in its latest advisory to online users in the country.
combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security-related defences of the Indian Internet arena.
“The two web browsers are an important tool for Internet surfing among Indian online consumers. The anomalies have been detected recently and it would be advised that users upgrade their existing versions sooner than later. These activities are mischiefs on part of hackers or they are harmful viruses,” a cyber security expert told PTI.
The agency, in its advisory, said the vulnerability is caused “due to improper restrict access to ‘about:home’ buttons by script on other pages in Mozila Firfox”.
“A user-assisted remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a crafted website or webpage. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow user-assisted remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition,” the CERT-In said.
Similar issues have been reported in the popular browser offered by Gooogle.
“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrom which could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause denial of service condition or execute arbitrary code on the target system,” the agency said.
The maximum damage these vulnerabilities can cause, the advisory said, was memory corruption, unwanted downloading of files, loss of sensitive information (when Mozila Firfox is used in Android phones) and cause of denial of various services on the Internet to the user.
The agency advised Internet users to either user proper security patches (Mozila Fiirefox) or upgrade the browser version (Googgle Chrome).
The affected software systems include “Firefox versions prior to 27.0, Firefox extended support release (ESR) versions prior to 24.3, Thunderbird versions prior to 24.3, SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.24 and Google Chrome prior to version 32.0.1700.102.”
Source: thehindu.com
combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security-related defences of the Indian Internet arena.
“The two web browsers are an important tool for Internet surfing among Indian online consumers. The anomalies have been detected recently and it would be advised that users upgrade their existing versions sooner than later. These activities are mischiefs on part of hackers or they are harmful viruses,” a cyber security expert told PTI.
The agency, in its advisory, said the vulnerability is caused “due to improper restrict access to ‘about:home’ buttons by script on other pages in Mozila Firfox”.
“A user-assisted remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a crafted website or webpage. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow user-assisted remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition,” the CERT-In said.Similar issues have been reported in the popular browser offered by Gooogle.
“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrom which could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause denial of service condition or execute arbitrary code on the target system,” the agency said.
The maximum damage these vulnerabilities can cause, the advisory said, was memory corruption, unwanted downloading of files, loss of sensitive information (when Mozila Firfox is used in Android phones) and cause of denial of various services on the Internet to the user.
The agency advised Internet users to either user proper security patches (Mozila Fiirefox) or upgrade the browser version (Googgle Chrome).
The affected software systems include “Firefox versions prior to 27.0, Firefox extended support release (ESR) versions prior to 24.3, Thunderbird versions prior to 24.3, SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.24 and Google Chrome prior to version 32.0.1700.102.”
Source: thehindu.com
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