Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2707-1 First vendor Publication 2015-08-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-08-07
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:P/I:N/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 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to expose sensitive information from local files.

Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Cody Crews discovered a way to violate the same-origin policy to inject script in to a non-privileged part of the PDF viewer. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to read sensitive information from local files. (CVE-2015-4495)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
firefox 39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
firefox 39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2707-1
CVE-2015-4495

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/39.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2707-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 411
Application 4
Application 1
Os 3
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2015-09-23 Mozilla Firefox PDF.js same origin policy violation attempt
RuleID : 35676 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX
2015-09-23 Mozilla Firefox PDF.js same origin policy violation attempt
RuleID : 35675 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX

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
2015-09-11 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1528-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-03 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1476-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-01 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1449-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-548.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-547.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-14 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1380-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-14 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1379-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-11 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-1581.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2707-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-10 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150807_firefox_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-10 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-1581.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-10 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1581.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-10 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_8eee06d4c21d4f07a669455151ff426f.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-07 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by an arbitra...
File : mozilla_firefox_39_0_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-07 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by an arbitra...
File : mozilla_firefox_38_1_1_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-07 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by an arbitr...
File : macosx_firefox_39_0_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-07 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by an arbitr...
File : macosx_firefox_38_1_1_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-08-12 13:33:40
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-10 17:32:57
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-08 09:30:45
  • Multiple Updates
2015-08-07 13:28:29
  • First insertion