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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.2.1.2015.29
Category:General
Title:Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2015-29) - 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:
Code execution through incorrect JavaScript bounds checking elimination
Security researcher ilxu1a reported, through HP Zero Day
Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a flaw in Mozilla's implementation of typed array
bounds checking in JavaScript just-in-time compilation (JIT) and its management
of bounds checking for heap access. This flaw can be leveraged into the reading
and writing of memory allowing for arbitrary code execution on the local system.

Affected Software/OS:
Firefox version(s) below 36.0.3.

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

CVSS Score:
6.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-0817
BugTraq ID: 73263
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73263
Debian Security Information: DSA-3201 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3201
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2015:0718
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0718.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031958
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2015:0593 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00029.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2015:0630 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00035.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:0567 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:0636 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00096.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2538-1
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