Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63398
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-717-3 (firefox)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-717-3 (firefox)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to firefox announced via advisory USN-717-3. Details follow: Kojima Hajime discovered that Firefox did not properly handle an escaped null character. An attacker may be able to exploit this flaw to bypass script sanitization. (CVE-2008-5510) Wladimir Palant discovered that Firefox did not restrict access to cookies in HTTP response headers. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious web page, a remote attacker could view sensitive information. (CVE-2009-0357) Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.15~ prepatch080614j-0ubuntu1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-717-3
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5510 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228856 Debian Security Information: DSA-1707 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-690-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1 BugTraq ID: 32882 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9662 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021425 http://secunia.com/advisories/33231 http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 http://secunia.com/advisories/33523 http://secunia.com/advisories/33184 http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 http://secunia.com/advisories/33204 http://secunia.com/advisories/33205 http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 http://secunia.com/advisories/35080 http://secunia.com/advisories/33408 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 XForce ISS Database: mozilla-cssparser-security-bypass(47415) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47415 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-0357 http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070511/bluehat-errata/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00240.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01077.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:044 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2009:0256 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0256.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0257.html http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.405420 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2009:009 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00001.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-717-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-717-2 BugTraq ID: 33598 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33598 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9459 http://secunia.com/advisories/33831 http://secunia.com/advisories/33841 http://secunia.com/advisories/33846 http://secunia.com/advisories/34462 http://secunia.com/advisories/34527 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0313 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021668 http://secunia.com/advisories/33799 http://secunia.com/advisories/33808 http://secunia.com/advisories/33809 http://secunia.com/advisories/33816 http://secunia.com/advisories/33869
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