Ubuntu 4.10 : mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-149-3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20546

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

USN-149-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) version of Firefox. The version shipped with Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) is also vulnerable to these flaws, so it needs to be upgraded as well. Please see

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-149-1

for the original advisory.

This update also fixes several older vulnerabilities; Some of them could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges if the user visited a malicious website. (MFSA-2005-01 to MFSA-2005-44; please see the following website for details:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20546

File Name: ubuntu_USN-149-3.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-ca, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-de, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-es, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-fr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-it, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-ja, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-nb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-pl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-tr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-locale-uk, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2005

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Mozilla Suite/Firefox compareTo() Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1156, CVE-2004-1381, CVE-2005-0141, CVE-2005-0142, CVE-2005-0143, CVE-2005-0144, CVE-2005-0145, CVE-2005-0146, CVE-2005-0147, CVE-2005-0150, CVE-2005-0230, CVE-2005-0231, CVE-2005-0232, CVE-2005-0233, CVE-2005-0255, CVE-2005-0399, CVE-2005-0401, CVE-2005-0402, CVE-2005-0578, CVE-2005-0584, CVE-2005-0585, CVE-2005-0586, CVE-2005-0587, CVE-2005-0588, CVE-2005-0589, CVE-2005-0590, CVE-2005-0591, CVE-2005-0592, CVE-2005-0593, CVE-2005-0752, CVE-2005-0989, CVE-2005-1153, CVE-2005-1154, CVE-2005-1155, CVE-2005-1156, CVE-2005-1157, CVE-2005-1158, CVE-2005-1159, CVE-2005-1160, CVE-2005-1531, CVE-2005-1532, CVE-2005-1937, CVE-2005-2260, CVE-2005-2261, CVE-2005-2262, CVE-2005-2263, CVE-2005-2264, CVE-2005-2265, CVE-2005-2266, CVE-2005-2267, CVE-2005-2268, CVE-2005-2269, CVE-2005-2270

USN: 149-3