Executive Summary

Summary
Title unity-firefox-extension vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1665-1 First vendor Publication 2012-12-13
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2012-12-13
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 12.10

Summary:

unity-firefox-extension could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description: - unity-firefox-extension: Firefox extension: Unity Integration

Details:

It was discovered that unity-firefox-extension bypassed the same origin policy checks in certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious page, an attacker could exploit this to steal confidential data or perform other security-sensitive operations.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
xul-ext-unity 2.4.1-0ubuntu1.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1665-1
CVE-2012-0958

Package Information:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-firefox-extension/2.4.1-0ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1665-1

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17399
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17399
Title: USN-1665-1 -- unity-firefox-extension vulnerability
Description: unity-firefox-extension could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1665-1
CVE-2012-0958
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): unity-firefox-extension
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-12-14 Name : Ubuntu Update for unity-firefox-extension USN-1665-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1665_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-12-14 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1665-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 12:01:13
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-27 21:19:23
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2012-12-27 13:19:03
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-13 17:22:13
  • First insertion