Executive Summary



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Summary
Title Firefox vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3705-1 First vendor Publication 2018-07-05
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-07-05
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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Software Description: - firefox: Mozilla Open Source web browser

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, read uninitialized memory, bypass same-origin restrictions, bypass CORS restrictions, bypass CSRF protections, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5156, CVE-2018-5186, CVE-2018-5187, CVE-2018-5188, CVE-2018-12358, CVE-2018-12359, CVE-2018-12360, CVE-2018-12361, CVE-2018-12362, CVE-2018-12363, CVE-2018-12364, CVE-2018-12365, CVE-2018-12366, CVE-2018-12367, CVE-2018-12370, CVE-2018-12371)

A security issue was discovered with WebExtensions. If a user were tricked in to installing a specially crafted extension, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain full browser permissions. (CVE-2018-12369)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
firefox 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 17.10:
firefox 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3705-1
CVE-2018-12358, CVE-2018-12359, CVE-2018-12360, CVE-2018-12361,
CVE-2018-12362, CVE-2018-12363, CVE-2018-12364, CVE-2018-12365,
CVE-2018-12366, CVE-2018-12367, CVE-2018-12369, CVE-2018-12370,
CVE-2018-12371, CVE-2018-5156, CVE-2018-5186, CVE-2018-5187,
CVE-2018-5188

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3705-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
27 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
13 % CWE-416 Use After Free
13 % CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE/SANS Top 25)
13 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
13 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)
13 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
7 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 522
Application 122
Application 379
Os 4
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-11-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201811-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1575.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201810-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4295.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-24 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-20 Name : The remote Windows host contains a mail client that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_thunderbird_60_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-20 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a mail client that is affected by ...
File : macosx_thunderbird_60_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-2251.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-26 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-2252.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-16 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-2112.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4244.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1425.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-12 Name : The remote Windows host contains a mail client that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_thunderbird_52_9.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-12 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a mail client that is affected by ...
File : macosx_thunderbird_52_9.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-2113.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1406.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-29 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple cr...
File : mozilla_firefox_61_0_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-29 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple cr...
File : mozilla_firefox_60_1_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-29 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple cr...
File : mozilla_firefox_52_9_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-29 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by m...
File : macosx_firefox_60_1_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-29 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by m...
File : macosx_firefox_52_9_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-29 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by m...
File : macos_firefox_61_0_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4235.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_cd81806c26e74d4a842502724a2f48af.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-12-06 21:21:37
  • Multiple Updates
2018-12-04 00:21:13
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-19 17:22:09
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-06 00:18:52
  • First insertion