Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.842224
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu Update for firefox USN-2602-1
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong, Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic 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-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709) Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG content with certain CSS properties in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, 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-2015-2710) Alex Verstak discovered that meta name='referrer' is ignored in some circumstances. (CVE-2015-2711) Dougall Johnson discovered an out of bounds read and write in asm.js. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2712) Scott Bell discovered a use-afer-free during the processing of text when vertical text is enabled. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, 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-2015-2713) Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free during shutdown. 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-2015-2715) Ucha Gobejishvili discovered a buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, 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-2015-2716) A buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read were discovered when parsing metadata in MP4 files in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the us ... Description truncated, please see the referenced URL(s) for more information. Affected Software/OS: firefox on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2708 BugTraq ID: 74615 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74615 Debian Security Information: DSA-3260 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3260 Debian Security Information: DSA-3264 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3264 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2015:0988 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0988.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2015:1012 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1012.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2015:0960 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00054.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2015:0978 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00000.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:0892 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00012.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:0934 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:1266 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2603-1 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2709 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2710 BugTraq ID: 74611 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2711 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2712 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2713 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2715 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2716 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2717 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-2718
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