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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.2.1.2014.45
Category:General
Title:Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2014-45) - Linux
Summary:This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox.
Description:Summary:
This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox.

Vulnerability Insight:
Incorrect IDNA domain name matching for wildcard certificates
Security researcher Christian Heimes reported that the Network Security
Services (NSS) library does not handle IDNA domain prefixes according to RFC 6125 for wildcard
certificates. This leads to improper wildcard matching of domains when they
should not be matched in compliance with the specification. This issue was fixed
in NSS version 3.16.

Affected Software/OS:
Firefox version(s) below 29.

Solution:
The vendor has released an update. Please see the reference(s) for more information.

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-1492
BugTraq ID: 66356
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66356
Bugtraq: 20141205 NEW: VMSA-2014-0012 - VMware vSphere product updates address security vulnerabilities (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-2994 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2994
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
http://secunia.com/advisories/60621
http://secunia.com/advisories/60794
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2014:0665 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00006.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2014:0727 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00015.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2014:0599 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2014:0629 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2159-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1
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