CVE-2008-5913

La función Math.random en la implementación de JavaScript en Mozilla Firefox versiones 3.5.x anteriores a 3.5.10 y versiones 3.6.x anteriores a 3.6.4, y SeaMonkey anterior a versión 2.0.5, usa un generador de números aleatorios que es insertado sólo una vez por sesión de navegador, lo que facilita a los atacantes remotos rastrear a un usuario, o engañar a un usuario para que actúe en base a un mensaje emergente falsificado, calculando el valor seed, en relación a una "temporary footprint" y un "in-session phishing attack."

USN-930-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Due to a software packaging problem, the Firefox 3.6 update could not be installed when the firefox-2 package was also installed. This update fixes the problem and updates apturl for the change. If was discovered that Firefox could be made to access freed memory. A flaw was discovered in the way plugin instances interacted. An integer overflow was discovered in Firefox. Martin Barbella discovered an integer overflow in an XSLT node sorting routine. Michal Zalewski discovered that the focus behavior of Firefox could be subverted. Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the 'Content-Disposition: attachment' HTTP header was ignored when 'Content-Type: multipart' was also present.