Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.842718
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2917-3)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-2917-3 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-2917-3 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: USN-2917-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update caused several web compatibility regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Francis Gabriel discovered a buffer overflow during ASN.1 decoding in NSS. 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-2016-1950) Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup, Carsten Book, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Tyson Smith, Andrea Marchesini, and Jukka Jylanki 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-2016-1952, CVE-2016-1953) Nicolas Golubovic discovered that CSP violation reports can be used to overwrite local files. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website with addon signing disabled and unpacked addons installed, an attacker could potentially exploit this to gain additional privileges. (CVE-2016-1954) Muneaki Nishimura discovered that CSP violation reports contained full paths for cross-origin iframe navigations. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential data. (CVE-2016-1955) Ucha Gobejishvili discovered that performing certain WebGL operations resulted in memory resource exhaustion with some Intel GPUs, requiring a reboot. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-1956) Jose Martinez and Romina Santillan discovered a memory leak in libstagefright during MPEG4 video file processing 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 memory exhaustion. (CVE-2016-1957) Abdulrahman Alqabandi discovered that the addressbar could be blank or filled with page defined content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2016-1958) Looben Yang discovered an out-of-bounds read in Service Worker Manager. 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-2016-1959) A use-after-free was discovered in the HTML5 string parser. If a user were tricked in to ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities] Affected Software/OS: 'firefox' package(s) on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.1 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1950 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html BugTraq ID: 84223 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84223 Debian Security Information: DSA-3510 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3510 Debian Security Information: DSA-3520 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3520 Debian Security Information: DSA-3688 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3688 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:0495 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0495.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035215 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2016:0727 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00027.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2016:0777 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00050.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2016:0820 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00068.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2016:0909 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00093.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0731 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00029.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0733 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00031.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1557 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00016.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2917-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2924-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2934-1 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1952 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0876 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00089.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0894 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00091.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1767 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00006.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1769 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00007.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1778 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00008.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1953 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1954 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1955 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1956 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1957 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1958 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1959
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