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Date:      Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:34:42 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 245968] Firefox 75.0_2,1 & Chromium 81.0.4044.113 - Servere Security Issue
Message-ID:  <bug-245968-7788@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 245968
           Summary: Firefox 75.0_2,1 & Chromium 81.0.4044.113 - Servere
                    Security Issue
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: gwq_uk@yahoo.com

Created attachment 213850
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Wireshark network monitoring log file

Hi All,

Firefox & Chromium appear to have been compromised with what looks like a
"backdoor".

I recently upgraded all my FreeBSD boxes to 12.1-p3 and ALL packages includ=
ing
the latest Firefox i.e. 75.0.2_1

One of my FreeBSD 12.1 boxes uses WIFI (wpa) and after opening the Firefox
browser the WIFI network became extremely slow. So I installed Wireshark (G=
UI)
from packages to see what was happening.

With just Firefox running and Google's home page loaded, I saw WireShark
displaying dozens of WAN IP addresses connecting to my FreeBSD box. Network
traffic suddenly went very high, and it seems all of the connections were u=
sing
TCP ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS) through my machine.

With Firefox closed the WAN connections disappeared. Just to be clear, Fire=
fox
was open but there was no web activity initiated by me.

To be absolutely sure, I systematically made sure that EVERY wired and wire=
less
device (that could possibly browse the internet) was switched off, changed =
the
WIFI ssid and password, and I ran the above tests again, I got the same res=
ult.

Would someone else run the same tests and confirm please?

** Method
- Install the latest Firefox & Wireshark from packages.
- Start Wireshark first (internet->wireshark), select your network adapter =
and
monitor the network - traffic to and from your machine.
- Start Firefox (or Chromium) only
- Now look at the network traffic to and from your IP address

I have attached a log, my IP address is 192.168.1.14 in the log, this file
should be opened in Wireshark only.

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