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Mozilla Firefox for Android < 37.0 DNS Cache Poisoning

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8746

Synopsis

The remote Android host was detected using an outdated version of Mozilla Firefox which is vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning attacks.

Description

Versions of Mozilla Firefox for Android earlier than 37.0 are affected by a flaw in 'android/res_init.c' within the Fennec name resolver that is due to insufficient entropy in the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG). This may allow a context-dependent attacker to conduct a DNS cache poisoning attack.

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 37.0 or later from the Google Play app store.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110212

http://blog.watchfire.com/files/androiddnsweakprng.pdf

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-41

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 8746

Published: 4/30/2015

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox_mobile

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2808, CVE-2015-0800

BID: 73459