Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2538-1 First vendor Publication 2015-03-22
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-03-22
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 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 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:

A flaw was discovered in the implementation of typed array bounds checking in the Javascript just-in-time compilation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-0817)

Mariusz Mlynski discovered a flaw in the processing of SVG format content navigation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to run arbitrary script in a privileged context. (CVE-2015-0818)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
firefox 36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
firefox 36.0.4+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-2538-1
CVE-2015-0817, CVE-2015-0818

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2538-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
50 % CWE-17 Code

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 389
Application 11
Application 219

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-04-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201504-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-01 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_37_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-01 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_31_6_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-01 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_firefox_37.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-01 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_firefox_31_6_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-31 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-279.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20150324_firefox_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-263.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-0718.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-25 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0718.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_firefox-20150323-150324.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-25 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-0718.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2538-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : seamonkey_2_33_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by a privileg...
File : mozilla_firefox_36_0_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by a remote c...
File : mozilla_firefox_36_0_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by a privileg...
File : mozilla_firefox_31_5_3_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by a remote c...
File : mozilla_firefox_31_5_2_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by a privile...
File : macosx_firefox_36_0_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by a remote ...
File : macosx_firefox_36_0_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by a privile...
File : macosx_firefox_31_5_3_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by a remote ...
File : macosx_firefox_31_5_2_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-24 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_76ff65f417ca4d3f864aa3d6026194fb.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2015-03-25 13:28:51
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2015-03-24 21:30:51
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2015-03-24 09:36:44
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2015-03-22 13:26:45
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