Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.841329
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1729-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-1729-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-1729-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Olli Pettay, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Joe Drew, Wayne Mery, Alon Zakai, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Luke Wagner, Terrence Cole, Timothy Nikkel, Bill McCloskey, and Nicolas Pierron discovered multiple memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2013-0783, CVE-2013-0784) Atte Kettunen discovered that Firefox could perform an out-of-bounds read while rendering GIF format images. An attacker could exploit this to crash Firefox. (CVE-2013-0772) Boris Zbarsky discovered that Firefox did not properly handle some wrapped WebIDL objects. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0765) Bobby Holley discovered vulnerabilities in Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and System Only Wrappers (SOW). If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass security protections to obtain sensitive information or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0773) Frederik Braun discovered that Firefox made the location of the active browser profile available to JavaScript workers. (CVE-2013-0774) A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Firefox. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0775) Michal Zalewski discovered that Firefox would not always show the correct address when cancelling a proxy authentication prompt. A remote attacker could exploit this to conduct URL spoofing and phishing attacks. (CVE-2013-0776) Abhishek Arya discovered several problems related to memory handling. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0777, CVE-2013-0778, CVE-2013-0779, CVE-2013-0780, CVE-2013-0781, CVE-2013-0782) Affected Software/OS: 'firefox' package(s) on Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 9.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0765 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17097 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0323 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00017.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0324 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00062.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1729-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1729-2 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0772 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17159 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:1812 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0773 Debian Security Information: DSA-2699 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16861 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1748-1 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0774 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16797 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0775 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16950 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:0271 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0271.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:0272 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0272.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0776 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16666 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0777 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16977 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0778 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16619 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0779 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16747 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0780 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16383 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0781 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16934 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0782 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16906 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0783 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16219 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-0784 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17119
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