Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Firefox vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3599-1 First vendor Publication 2018-03-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-03-16
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 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:

An out-of-bounds write was discovered when processing Vorbis audio data. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5146)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
firefox 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3599-1
CVE-2018-5146

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3599-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 506
Application 114
Application 358
Os 3
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2018-11-10 libvorbis VORBIS audio data out of bounds write attempt
RuleID : 48106 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-MULTIMEDIA
2018-11-10 libvorbis VORBIS audio data out of bounds write attempt
RuleID : 48105 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-MULTIMEDIA

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-def329f680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
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
2018-07-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1189.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-28 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1155.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-31 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-1058.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1118.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1117.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1105.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1368.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-18 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-981.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0649.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0648.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-10 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0647.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-06 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-981.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1327.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4155.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-f26d891469.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1319.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-23 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple co...
File : mozilla_firefox_59_0_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-23 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple co...
File : mozilla_firefox_52_7_2_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-23 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a...
File : macos_firefox_59_0_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-23 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by m...
File : macos_firefox_52_7_2_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-061bafe369.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-0549.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-19 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2018-076-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-19 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_7943794f707f4e319fea3bbf1ddcedc1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4143.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4140.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-08-09 21:22:07
  • Multiple Updates
2018-06-13 09:21:18
  • Multiple Updates
2018-03-17 00:19:11
  • First insertion