CVE-2006-4340 - Improper Input Validation

Severity

40%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

81%

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-4339. NOTE: on 20061107, Mozilla released an advisory stating that these versions were not completely patched by MFSA2006-60. The newer fixes for 1.5.0.7 are covered by CVE-2006-5462.

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-4339. NOTE: on 20061107, Mozilla released an advisory stating that these versions were not completely patched by MFSA2006-60. The newer fixes for 1.5.0.7 are covered by CVE-2006-5462.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Demo Examples

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example demonstrates a shopping interaction in which the user is free to specify the quantity of items to be purchased and a total is calculated.


               
...

The user has no control over the price variable, however the code does not prevent a negative value from being specified for quantity. If an attacker were to provide a negative value, then the user would have their account credited instead of debited.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example asks the user for a height and width of an m X n game board with a maximum dimension of 100 squares.


               
.../* board dimensions */
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("Value too large: Die evil hacker!\n");

While this code checks to make sure the user cannot specify large, positive integers and consume too much memory, it does not check for negative values supplied by the user. As a result, an attacker can perform a resource consumption (CWE-400) attack against this program by specifying two, large negative values that will not overflow, resulting in a very large memory allocation (CWE-789) and possibly a system crash. Alternatively, an attacker can provide very large negative values which will cause an integer overflow (CWE-190) and unexpected behavior will follow depending on how the values are treated in the remainder of the program.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example shows a PHP application in which the programmer attempts to display a user's birthday and homepage.


               
echo "Birthday: $birthday<br>Homepage: <a href=$homepage>click here</a>"

The programmer intended for $birthday to be in a date format and $homepage to be a valid URL. However, since the values are derived from an HTTP request, if an attacker can trick a victim into clicking a crafted URL with <script> tags providing the values for birthday and / or homepage, then the script will run on the client's browser when the web server echoes the content. Notice that even if the programmer were to defend the $birthday variable by restricting input to integers and dashes, it would still be possible for an attacker to provide a string of the form:


               
2009-01-09--

If this data were used in a SQL statement, it would treat the remainder of the statement as a comment. The comment could disable other security-related logic in the statement. In this case, encoding combined with input validation would be a more useful protection mechanism.

Furthermore, an XSS (CWE-79) attack or SQL injection (CWE-89) are just a few of the potential consequences when input validation is not used. Depending on the context of the code, CRLF Injection (CWE-93), Argument Injection (CWE-88), or Command Injection (CWE-77) may also be possible.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This function attempts to extract a pair of numbers from a user-supplied string.


               
}
die("Did not specify integer value. Die evil hacker!\n");
/* proceed assuming n and m are initialized correctly */

This code attempts to extract two integer values out of a formatted, user-supplied input. However, if an attacker were to provide an input of the form:


               
123:

then only the m variable will be initialized. Subsequent use of n may result in the use of an uninitialized variable (CWE-457).

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example takes a user-supplied value to allocate an array of objects and then operates on the array.


               
}
list[0] = new Widget();
die("Negative value supplied for list size, die evil hacker!");

This example attempts to build a list from a user-specified value, and even checks to ensure a non-negative value is supplied. If, however, a 0 value is provided, the code will build an array of size 0 and then try to store a new Widget in the first location, causing an exception to be thrown.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This application has registered to handle a URL when sent an intent:


               
}......
}
}
int length = URL.length();
...

The application assumes the URL will always be included in the intent. When the URL is not present, the call to getStringExtra() will return null, thus causing a null pointer exception when length() is called.

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 18 years ago

2006-09-15 18:07:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:36:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Network Security Services

Mozilla SeaMonkey

Mozilla Thunderbird

References

20060901-01-P

21903

Vendor Advisory

21906

Patch, Vendor Advisory

21915

Vendor Advisory

21916

Vendor Advisory

21939

Vendor Advisory

21940

Vendor Advisory

21949

Patch, Vendor Advisory

21950

Vendor Advisory

22001

Vendor Advisory

22025

Vendor Advisory

22036

Vendor Advisory

22044

22055

Vendor Advisory

22056

22066

22074

Vendor Advisory

22088

Vendor Advisory

22195

22210

Vendor Advisory

22226

Vendor Advisory

22247

Vendor Advisory

22274

Vendor Advisory

22299

Vendor Advisory

22342

Vendor Advisory

22422

Vendor Advisory

22446

Vendor Advisory

22849

22992

23883

24711

GLSA-200609-19

GLSA-200610-01

1016858

1016859

1016860

102648

102781

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-224.htm

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm

DSA-1192

DSA-1210

GLSA-200610-06

[ietf-openpgp] 20060827 Bleichenbacher's RSA signature forgery based on implementation error

MDKSA-2006:168

MDKSA-2006:169

http://www.matasano.com/log/469/many-rsa-signatures-may-be-forgeable-in-openssl-and-elsewhere/

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-60.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-66.html

SUSE-SA:2006:054

SUSE-SA:2006:055

RHSA-2006:0675

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2006:0676

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2006:0677

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20060915 rPSA-2006-0169-1 firefox thunderbird

USN-350-1

USN-351-1

USN-352-1

USN-354-1

USN-361-1

DSA-1191

TA06-312A

US Government Resource

ADV-2006-3617

ADV-2006-3622

ADV-2006-3748

ADV-2006-3899

ADV-2007-0293

ADV-2007-1198

ADV-2008-0083

SSRT061181

mozilla-nss-security-bypass(30098)

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-640

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11007

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