Executive Summary

Summary
Title Firefox vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3609-1 First vendor Publication 2018-03-27
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-03-27
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 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:

A use-after-free was discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
firefox 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
firefox 59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
firefox 59.0.2+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-3609-1
CVE-2018-5148

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3609-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-416 Use After Free

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 507
Application 115
Os 3
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-07-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1189.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-31 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-1099.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-29 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1125.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-29 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-03 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-1098.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
2018-03-30 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a...
File : macos_firefox_52_7_3_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-30 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a...
File : macos_firefox_59_0_2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-30 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a Denial of...
File : mozilla_firefox_52_7_3_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-30 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a Denial of...
File : mozilla_firefox_59_0_2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1321.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4153.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_23f59689015242d39ade1658d6380567.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
2018-03-28 17:18:42
  • First insertion