Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2557-1 First vendor Publication 2015-04-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-04-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to bypass SSL certificate verification.

Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Muneaki Nishimura discovered a flaw in Mozilla's HTTP Alternative Services implementation which meant SSL certificate verification could be bypassed in some circumstances. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct a man in the middle attack. (CVE-2015-0799)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
firefox 37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
firefox 37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2557-1
CVE-2015-0799

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/37.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2557-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 391
Os 3
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-01-04 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201512-10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-290.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2557-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-06 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_b8321d7624e74b72a01dd12c4445d826.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-06 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by a securit...
File : macosx_firefox_37_0_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-06 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by a security...
File : mozilla_firefox_37_0_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-04-09 13:29:17
  • Multiple Updates
2015-04-08 21:30:53
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2015-04-08 17:29:18
  • Multiple Updates
2015-04-07 13:26:42
  • First insertion