Debian DSA-1225-2 : mozilla-firefox - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 23767

Synopsis

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

Description

This update covers packages for the little endian MIPS architecture missing in the original advisory. For reference please find below the original advisory text :

Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla and derived products such as Mozilla Firefox. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities :

- CVE-2006-4310 Tomas Kempinsky discovered that malformed FTP server responses could lead to denial of service.

- CVE-2006-5462 Ulrich Kuhn discovered that the correction for a cryptographic flaw in the handling of PKCS-1 certificates was incomplete, which allows the forgery of certificates.

- CVE-2006-5463 'shutdown' discovered that modification of JavaScript objects during execution could lead to the execution of arbitrary JavaScript bytecode.

- CVE-2006-5464 Jesse Ruderman and Martijn Wargers discovered several crashes in the layout engine, which might also allow execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2006-5748 Igor Bukanov and Jesse Ruderman discovered several crashes in the JavaScript engine, which might allow execution of arbitrary code.

This update also addresses several crashes, which could be triggered by malicious websites and fixes a regression introduced in the previous Mozilla update.

Solution

Upgrade the mozilla-firefox package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-2sarge13.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 23767

File Name: debian_DSA-1225.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/4/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4310, CVE-2006-5462, CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5464, CVE-2006-5748

BID: 19678, 20957

CWE: 20

CERT: 335392, 390480, 495288, 714496

DSA: 1225

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