Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Firefox vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-4165-1 | First vendor Publication | 2019-10-23 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2019-10-23 |
| 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:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 6.8 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | 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 19.10 - Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 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, bypass security restrictions, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, bypass content security policy (CSP) protections, or execute arbitrary code. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10: Ubuntu 19.04: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: After a standard system update you need to restart Firefox to make all the necessary changes. References: Package Information: |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4165-1 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 33 % | CWE-787 | Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
| 33 % | CWE-776 | Unrestricted Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Bomb') |
| 33 % | CWE-125 | Out-of-bounds Read |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Snort® IPS/IDS
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2019-12-17 | libexpat internal entity heap over-read attempt RuleID : 52254 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OTHER |
| 2019-12-17 | libexpat internal entity heap over-read attempt RuleID : 52253 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OTHER |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2019-01-03 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2018-499f2dbc96.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-09-24 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2018-4a16e37c81.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-08-23 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201808-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-07-30 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_b9c525d9919811e8beba080027ef1a23.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-07-27 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-4256.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2019-10-24 05:19:18 |
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