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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.841914
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2295-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-2295-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-2295-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Christian Holler, David Keeler, Byron Campen, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman,
Andrew McCreight, Alon Zakai, Bobby Holley, Jonathan Watt, Shu-yu Guo,
Steve Fink, Terrence Cole, Gijs Kruitbosch and Catalin Badea discovered
multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1547, CVE-2014-1548)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow when interacting with WebAudio
buffers. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1549)

Atte Kettunen discovered a use-after-free in WebAudio. An attacker could
potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application
crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2014-1550)

David Chan and Gijs Kruitbosch discovered that web content could spoof
UI customization events in some circumstances, resulting in a limited
ability to move UI icons. (CVE-2014-1561)

Jethro Beekman discovered a use-after-free when the FireOnStateChange
event is triggered in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially
exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1555)

Patrick Cozzi discovered a crash when using the Cesium JS library to
generate WebGL content. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privilges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1556)

Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free in
CERT_DestroyCertificate. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1544)

A crash was discovered in Skia when scaling an image, if the scaling
operation takes too long. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2014-1557)

Christian Holler discovered several issues when parsing certificates
with non-standard character encoding, resulting in the inability to
use valid SSL certificates in some circumstances. (CVE-2014-1558,
CVE-2014-1559, CVE-2014-1560)

Boris Zbarsky discovered that network redirects could cause an iframe
to escape the confinements defined by its sandbox attribute in
some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2014-1552)

Affected Software/OS:
'firefox' package(s) on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1544
BugTraq ID: 68816
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68816
Debian Security Information: DSA-2986 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2986
Debian Security Information: DSA-2996 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2996
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030617
http://secunia.com/advisories/59591
http://secunia.com/advisories/59719
http://secunia.com/advisories/59760
http://secunia.com/advisories/60083
http://secunia.com/advisories/60486
http://secunia.com/advisories/60621
http://secunia.com/advisories/60628
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1547
BugTraq ID: 68811
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68811
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030620
http://secunia.com/advisories/60306
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1548
BugTraq ID: 68818
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68818
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1549
BugTraq ID: 68820
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68820
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1550
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1552
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1555
BugTraq ID: 68814
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68814
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1556
BugTraq ID: 68822
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68822
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1557
BugTraq ID: 68824
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68824
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1558
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1559
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1560
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1561
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