Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.842953
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3124-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-3124-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the USN-3124-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup 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. (CVE-2016-5289, CVE-2016-5290) A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291) A crash was discovered when parsing URLs in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5292) A heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG 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. (CVE-2016-5296) An error was discovered in argument length checking in Javascript. 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. (CVE-2016-5297) An integer overflow was discovered in the Expat library. 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. (CVE-2016-9063) It was discovered that addon updates failed to verify that the addon ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the addon being updated. An attacker that could perform a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack could potentially exploit this to provide malicious addon updates. (CVE-2016-9064) A buffer overflow was discovered in nsScriptLoadHandler. 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. (CVE-2016-9066) 2 use-after-free bugs were discovered during DOM operations in some circumstances. 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. (CVE-2016-9067, CVE-2016-9069) A heap use-after-free was discovered during web animations 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. (CVE-2016-9068) It was discovered that a page loaded in to the sidebar through a bookmark could reference a privileged chrome window. ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities] Affected Software/OS: 'firefox' package(s) on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). 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-2016-5289 BugTraq ID: 94337 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5290 BugTraq ID: 94335 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94335 Debian Security Information: DSA-3730 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3730 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:2780 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:2825 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5291 BugTraq ID: 94336 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5292 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5296 BugTraq ID: 94339 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94339 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5297 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9063 Debian Security Information: DSA-3898 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3898 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039427 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9064 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9066 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9067 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9068 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9069 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9070 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9071 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9073 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9075 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9076 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9077
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