Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : mozilla, mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-181-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20592

Synopsis

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

Description

Tom Ferris discovered a buffer overflow in the Mozilla products (Mozilla browser, Firefox, Thunderbird). By tricking an user to click on a Hyperlink with a specially crafted destination URL, a remote attacker could crash the application. It might even be possible to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, but this has not yet been confirmed.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20592

File Name: ubuntu_USN-181-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

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-gnome-support, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-mailnews, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-dom-inspector, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-js-debugger, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-browser, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-chatzilla, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-firefox-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-thunderbird-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-thunderbird-inspector, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-psm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-calendar, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-thunderbird-offline

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2871

USN: 181-1

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