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Debian DSA-1055-1 : mozilla-firefox - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22597

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott described crashes of Mozilla due to the use of a deleted controller context. In theory this could be abused to execute malicious code. Since Mozilla and Firefox share the same codebase, Firefox may be vulnerable as well.

Solution

Upgrade the Mozilla Firefox packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-2sarge7.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1055

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22597

File Name: debian_DSA-1055.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mozilla-firefox, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1993

BID: 17671

CERT: 866300

DSA: 1055