Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2830 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.3 preserve the network connection used for favicon resource retrieval after the associated browser window is closed, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users by observing network traffic from multiple IP addresses.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_FIREFOX_48.NASL description The version of Firefox installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 48. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An overflow condition exists in the expat XML parser due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling malformed input documents. An attacker can exploit this to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0718) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to a failure to close connections after requesting favicons. An attacker can exploit this to continue to send requests to the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92753 published 2016-08-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92753 title Firefox < 48 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(92753); script_version("1.11"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/14"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2016-0718", "CVE-2016-2830", "CVE-2016-2835", "CVE-2016-2836", "CVE-2016-2837", "CVE-2016-2838", "CVE-2016-5250", "CVE-2016-5251", "CVE-2016-5252", "CVE-2016-5254", "CVE-2016-5255", "CVE-2016-5258", "CVE-2016-5259", "CVE-2016-5260", "CVE-2016-5261", "CVE-2016-5262", "CVE-2016-5263", "CVE-2016-5264", "CVE-2016-5265", "CVE-2016-5266", "CVE-2016-5268" ); script_bugtraq_id( 90729, 92258, 92260, 92261 ); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-62"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-63"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-64"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-66"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-67"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-68"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-69"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-70"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-71"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-72"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-73"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-74"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-75"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-76"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-77"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-78"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-79"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-80"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-81"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-83"); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2016-84"); script_name(english:"Firefox < 48 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the version of Firefox."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The version of Firefox installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 48. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An overflow condition exists in the expat XML parser due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling malformed input documents. An attacker can exploit this to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0718) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to a failure to close connections after requesting favicons. An attacker can exploit this to continue to send requests to the user's browser and disclose sensitive information.(CVE-2016-2830) - Multiple memory corruption issues exist due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit these issues to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2835, CVE-2016-2836) - An overflow condition exists in the ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) used by the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2837) - An overflow condition exists in the ProcessPDI() function in layout/base/nsBidi.cpp due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this to cause a heap-based buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2838) - A flaw exists in the Resource Timing API during page navigation. An attacker can exploit this to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5250) - A flaw exists that is triggered when decoding url-encoded values in 'data:' URLs. An attacker can exploit this, via non-ASCII or emoji characters, to spoof the address in the address bar. (CVE-2016-5251) - An underflow condition exists in the BasePoint4d() function in gfx/2d/Matrix.h due to improper validation of user-supplied input when calculating clipping regions in 2D graphics. A remote attacker can exploit this to cause a stack-based buffer underflow, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5252) - A use-after-free error exists in the KeyDown() function in layout/xul/nsXULPopupManager.cpp when using the alt key in conjunction with top level menu items. An attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5254) - A use-after-free error exists in the sweep() function that is triggered when handling objects and pointers during incremental garbage collection. An attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5255) - A use-after-free error exists in WebRTC that is triggered when handling DTLS objects. An attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5258) - A use-after-free error exists in the DestroySyncLoop() function in dom/workers/WorkerPrivate.cpp that is triggered when handling nested sync event loops in Service Workers. An attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5259) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the restorableFormNodes() function in XPathGenerator.jsm due to persistently storing passwords in plaintext in session restore data. An attacker can exploit this to disclose password information. (CVE-2016-5260) - An integer overflow condition exists in the ProcessInput() function in WebSocketChannel.cpp due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling specially crafted WebSocketChannel packets. An attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5261) - A security bypass vulnerability exists due to event handler attributes on a <marquee> tag being executed inside a sandboxed iframe that does not have the allow-scripts flag set. An attacker can exploit this to bypass cross-site scripting protection mechanisms. (CVE-2016-5262) - A type confusion flaw exists in the HitTest() function in nsDisplayList.cpp when handling display transformations. An attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5263) - A use-after-free error exists in the NativeAnonymousChildListChange() function when applying effects to SVG elements. An attacker can exploit this to dereference already freed memory, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5264) - A flaw exists in the Redirect() function in nsBaseChannel.cpp that is triggered when a malicious shortcut is called from the same directory as a local HTML file. An attacker can exploit this to bypass the same-origin policy. (CVE-2016-5265) - A flaw exists due to a failure to properly filter file URIs dragged from a web page to a different piece of software. An attacker can exploit this to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5266) - A flaw exists that is triggered when handling certain specific 'about:' URLs that allows an attacker to spoof the contents of system information or error messages (CVE-2016-5268) - A flaw exists that is triggered when handling certain specific 'about:' URLs that allows an attacker to spoof the contents of system information or error messages (CVE-2016-5268) - A flaw exists in woff2 that is triggered during the handling of TTC detection. 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NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3640.NASL description Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scripting, information disclosure and bypass of the same-origin policy. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92731 published 2016-08-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92731 title Debian DSA-3640-1 : firefox-esr - security update NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_45_3_ESR.NASL description The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is 45.x prior to 45.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to a failure to close connections after requesting favicons. An attacker can exploit this to continue to send requests to the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92754 published 2016-08-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92754 title Firefox ESR 45.x < 45.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-2131-1.NASL description Mozilla Firefox was updated to 45.3.0 ESR to fix the following issues (bsc#991809) : - MFSA 2016-62/CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:48.0 / rv:45.3) - MFSA 2016-63/CVE-2016-2830 Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed - MFSA 2016-64/CVE-2016-2838 Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content - MFSA 2016-65/CVE-2016-2839 Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 - MFSA 2016-67/CVE-2016-5252 Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering - MFSA 2016-70/CVE-2016-5254 Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus - MFSA 2016-72/CVE-2016-5258 Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown - MFSA 2016-73/CVE-2016-5259 Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events - MFSA 2016-76/CVE-2016-5262 Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes - MFSA 2016-77/CVE-2016-2837 Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback - MFSA 2016-78/CVE-2016-5263 Type confusion in display transformation - MFSA 2016-79/CVE-2016-5264 Use-after-free when applying SVG effects - MFSA 2016-80/CVE-2016-5265 Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file - CVE-2016-6354: Fix for possible buffer overrun (bsc#990856) Also a temporary workaround was added : - Temporarily bind Firefox to the first CPU as a hotfix for an apparent race condition (bsc#989196, bsc#990628) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93302 published 2016-09-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93302 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2016:2131-1) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2016-1551.NASL description An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.3.0 ESR. Security Fix(es) : * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265, CVE-2016-2837) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Looben Yang, Carsten Book, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Phil Ringnalda, Philipp, Toni Huttunen, Georg Koppen, Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen, Nils, Nikita Arykov, and Abdulrahman Alqabandi as the original reporters. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2016-08-04 plugin id 92717 published 2016-08-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92717 title RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (RHSA-2016:1551) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-937.NASL description Mozilla Firefox was updated to 48.0 to fix security issues, bugs, and deliver various improvements. The following major changes are included : - Process separation (e10s) is enabled for some users - Add-ons that have not been verified and signed by Mozilla will not load - WebRTC enhancements - The media parser has been redeveloped using the Rust programming language - better Canvas performance with speedy Skia support - Now requires NSS 3.24 The following security issues were fixed: (boo#991809) - CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - CVE-2016-2830: Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed - CVE-2016-2838: Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content - CVE-2016-2839: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 - CVE-2016-5251: Location bar spoofing via data URLs with malformed/invalid mediatypes - CVE-2016-5252: Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering - CVE-2016-0718: Out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in Expat library - CVE-2016-5254: Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus - CVE-2016-5255: Crash in incremental garbage collection in JavaScript - CVE-2016-5258: Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown - CVE-2016-5259: Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events - CVE-2016-5260: Form input type change from password to text can store plain text password in session restore file - CVE-2016-5261: Integer overflow in WebSockets during data buffering - CVE-2016-5262: Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes - CVE-2016-2837: Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback - CVE-2016-5263: Type confusion in display transformation - CVE-2016-5264: Use-after-free when applying SVG effects - CVE-2016-5265: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file - CVE-2016-5266: Information disclosure and local file manipulation through drag and drop - CVE-2016-5268: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal error pages - CVE-2016-5250: Information disclosure through Resource Timing API during page navigation The following non-security changes are included : - The AppData description and screenshots were updated. - Fix Firefox crash on startup on i586 (boo#986541) - The Selenium WebDriver may have caused Firefox to crash at startup - fix build issues with gcc/binutils combination used in Leap 42.2 (boo#984637) - Fix running on 48bit va aarch64 (boo#984126) - fix XUL dialog button order under KDE session (boo#984403) Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.24 as a dependency. Changes in mozilla-nss : - NSS softoken updated with latest NIST guidance - NSS softoken updated to allow NSS to run in FIPS Level 1 (no password) - Various added and deprecated functions - Remove most code related to SSL v2, including the ability to actively send a SSLv2-compatible client hello. - Protect against the Cachebleed attack. - Disable support for DTLS compression. - Improve support for TLS 1.3. This includes support for DTLS 1.3. (experimental) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-08-05 plugin id 92746 published 2016-08-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92746 title openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2016-937) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-960.NASL description Mozilla Firefox was updated to 48.0 to fix security issues, bugs, and deliver various improvements. The following major changes are included : - Process separation (e10s) is enabled for some users - Add-ons that have not been verified and signed by Mozilla will not load - WebRTC enhancements - The media parser has been redeveloped using the Rust programming language - better Canvas performance with speedy Skia support - Now requires NSS 3.24 The following security issues were fixed: (boo#991809) - CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - CVE-2016-2830: Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed - CVE-2016-2838: Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content - CVE-2016-2839: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 - CVE-2016-5251: Location bar spoofing via data URLs with malformed/invalid mediatypes - CVE-2016-5252: Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering - CVE-2016-0718: Out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in Expat library - CVE-2016-5254: Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus - CVE-2016-5255: Crash in incremental garbage collection in JavaScript - CVE-2016-5258: Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown - CVE-2016-5259: Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events - CVE-2016-5260: Form input type change from password to text can store plain text password in session restore file - CVE-2016-5261: Integer overflow in WebSockets during data buffering - CVE-2016-5262: Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes - CVE-2016-2837: Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback - CVE-2016-5263: Type confusion in display transformation - CVE-2016-5264: Use-after-free when applying SVG effects - CVE-2016-5265: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file - CVE-2016-5266: Information disclosure and local file manipulation through drag and drop - CVE-2016-5268: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal error pages - CVE-2016-5250: Information disclosure through Resource Timing API during page navigation The following non-security changes are included : - The AppData description and screenshots were updated. - Fix Firefox crash on startup on i586 (boo#986541) - The Selenium WebDriver may have caused Firefox to crash at startup - fix build issues with gcc/binutils combination used in Leap 42.2 (boo#984637) - Fix running on 48bit va aarch64 (boo#984126) - fix XUL dialog button order under KDE session (boo#984403) Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.24 as a dependency. Changes in mozilla-nss : - NSS softoken updated with latest NIST guidance - NSS softoken updated to allow NSS to run in FIPS Level 1 (no password) - Various added and deprecated functions - Remove most code related to SSL v2, including the ability to actively send a SSLv2-compatible client hello. - Protect against the Cachebleed attack. - Disable support for DTLS compression. - Improve support for TLS 1.3. This includes support for DTLS 1.3. (experimental) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-08-11 plugin id 92853 published 2016-08-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92853 title openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2016-960) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2019-2872-1.NASL description This update for MozillaFirefox to 68.2.0 ESR fixes the following issues : Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 68.2.0 ESR (bsc#1154738). Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-15903: Fixed a heap overflow in the expat library (bsc#1149429). CVE-2019-11757: Fixed a use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB (bsc#1154738). CVE-2019-11758: Fixed a potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security (bsc#1154738). CVE-2019-11759: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in HKDF output (bsc#1154738). CVE-2019-11760: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in WebRTC networking (bsc#1154738). CVE-2019-11761: Fixed an unintended access to a privileged JSONView object (bsc#1154738). CVE-2019-11762: Fixed a same-origin-property violation (bsc#1154738). CVE-2019-11763: Fixed an XSS bypass (bsc#1154738). CVE-2019-11764: Fixed several memory safety bugs (bsc#1154738). Non-security issues fixed: Firefox 60.7 ESR changed the user interface language (bsc#1137990). Wrong Firefox GUI Language (bsc#1120374). Fixed an inadvertent crash report transmission without user opt-in (bsc#1074235). Firefox hangs randomly when browsing and scrolling (bsc#1043008). Firefox stops loading page until mouse is moved (bsc#1025108). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 130450 published 2019-11-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130450 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2019:2872-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-1120.NASL description - update to Thunderbird 45.3.0 (boo#991809) - Disposition-Notification-To could not be used in mail.compose.other.header - last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-09-26 plugin id 93706 published 2016-09-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93706 title openSUSE Security Update : Thunderbird (openSUSE-2016-1120) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-1057.NASL description This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues : - update to Thunderbird 45.3.0 (boo#991809) - Disposition-Notification-To could not be used in mail.compose.other.header - last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-09-08 plugin id 93363 published 2016-09-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93363 title openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2016-1057) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-585.NASL description Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, cross-site scriping, information disclosure and bypass of the same-origin policy. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-08-05 plugin id 92728 published 2016-08-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92728 title Debian DLA-585-1 : firefox-esr security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-2061-1.NASL description MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss were updated to fix nine security issues. Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 45.3.0 ESR. mozilla-nss was updated to version 3.21.1, mozilla-nspr to version 4.12. These security issues were fixed in 45.3.0ESR : - CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:48.0 / rv:45.3) (MFSA 2016-62) - CVE-2016-2830: Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed (MFSA 2016-63) - CVE-2016-2838: Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content (MFSA 2016-64) - CVE-2016-2839: Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 (MFSA 2016-65) - CVE-2016-5252: Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering (MFSA 2016-67) - CVE-2016-5254: Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus (MFSA 2016-70) - CVE-2016-5258: Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown (MFSA 2016-72) - CVE-2016-5259: Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events (MFSA 2016-73) - CVE-2016-5262: Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes (MFSA 2016-76) - CVE-2016-2837: Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback (MFSA 2016-77) - CVE-2016-5263: Type confusion in display transformation (MFSA 2016-78) - CVE-2016-5264: Use-after-free when applying SVG effects (MFSA 2016-79) - CVE-2016-5265: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file (MFSA 2016-80) - CVE-2016-6354: Fix for possible buffer overrun (bsc#990856) Security issues fixed in 45.2.0.ESR : - CVE-2016-2834: Memory safety bugs in NSS (MFSA 2016-61) (bsc#983639). - CVE-2016-2824: Out-of-bounds write with WebGL shader (MFSA 2016-53) (bsc#983651). - CVE-2016-2822: Addressbar spoofing though the SELECT element (MFSA 2016-52) (bsc#983652). - CVE-2016-2821: Use-after-free deleting tables from a contenteditable document (MFSA 2016-51) (bsc#983653). - CVE-2016-2819: Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments (MFSA 2016-50) (bsc#983655). - CVE-2016-2828: Use-after-free when textures are used in WebGL operations after recycle pool destruction (MFSA 2016-56) (bsc#983646). - CVE-2016-2831: Entering fullscreen and persistent pointerlock without user permission (MFSA 2016-58) (bsc#983643). - CVE-2016-2815, CVE-2016-2818: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2016-49) (bsc#983638) The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2016-09-02 plugin id 93288 published 2016-09-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93288 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED, mozilla-nspr / mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2016:2061-1) NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_48.NASL description The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 48. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An overflow condition exists in the expat XML parser due to improper validation of user-supplied input when handling malformed input documents. An attacker can exploit this to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0718) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to a failure to close connections after requesting favicons. An attacker can exploit this to continue to send requests to the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92755 published 2016-08-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92755 title Firefox < 48 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2016-1551.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:1551 : An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.3.0 ESR. Security Fix(es) : * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265, CVE-2016-2837) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Looben Yang, Carsten Book, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Phil Ringnalda, Philipp, Toni Huttunen, Georg Koppen, Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen, Nils, Nikita Arykov, and Abdulrahman Alqabandi as the original reporters. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2016-08-04 plugin id 92716 published 2016-08-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92716 title Oracle Linux 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (ELSA-2016-1551) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3044-1.NASL description Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-0718) Toni Huttunen discovered that once a favicon is requested from a site, the remote server can keep the network connection open even after the page is closed. A remote attacked could potentially exploit this to track users, resulting in information disclosure. (CVE-2016-2830) Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Byron Campen, Julian Seward, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2835, CVE-2016-2836) A buffer overflow was discovered in the ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via plugin process crash, or, in combination with another vulnerability to escape the GMP sandbox, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2837) Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow when rendering SVG content in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2838) Bert Massop discovered a crash in Cairo with version 0.10 of FFmpeg. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2839) Catalin Dumitru discovered that URLs of resources loaded after a navigation start could be leaked to the following page via the Resource Timing API. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5250) Firas Salem discovered an issue with non-ASCII and emoji characters in data: URLs. An attacker could potentially exploit this to spoof the addressbar contents. (CVE-2016-5251) Georg Koppen discovered a stack buffer underflow during 2D graphics rendering in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5252) Abhishek Arya discovered a use-after-free when the alt key is used with top-level menus. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5254) Jukka Jylanki discovered a crash during garbage collection. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5255) Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free in WebRTC. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5258) Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free when working with nested sync events in service workers. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5259) Mike Kaply discovered that plain-text passwords can be stored in session restore if an input field type is changed from last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92785 published 2016-08-08 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92785 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3044-1) NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_FIREFOX_45_3_ESR.NASL description The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Mac OS X host is 45.x prior to 45.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to a failure to close connections after requesting favicons. An attacker can exploit this to continue to send requests to the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92752 published 2016-08-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92752 title Firefox ESR 45.x < 45.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_AA1AEFE36E3747DBBFDA343EF4ACB1B5.NASL description Mozilla Foundation reports : Please reference CVE/URL list for details last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93429 published 2016-09-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93429 title FreeBSD : Mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (aa1aefe3-6e37-47db-bfda-343ef4acb1b5) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20160803_FIREFOX_ON_SL5_X.NASL description This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.3.0 ESR. Security Fix(es) : - Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265, CVE-2016-2837) last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2016-08-04 plugin id 92721 published 2016-08-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92721 title Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160803) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2016-1551.NASL description An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. This update upgrades Firefox to version 45.3.0 ESR. Security Fix(es) : * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265, CVE-2016-2837) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Looben Yang, Carsten Book, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Phil Ringnalda, Philipp, Toni Huttunen, Georg Koppen, Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen, Nils, Nikita Arykov, and Abdulrahman Alqabandi as the original reporters. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 92703 published 2016-08-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92703 title CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (CESA-2016:1551) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201701-15.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-15 (Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition via multiple vectors. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 96276 published 2017-01-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96276 title GLSA-201701-15 : Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities (SWEET32) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-2195-1.NASL description Mozilla Firefox was updated to 45.3.0 ESR to fix the following issues (bsc#991809) : - MFSA 2016-62/CVE-2016-2835/CVE-2016-2836 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:48.0 / rv:45.3) - MFSA 2016-63/CVE-2016-2830 Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed - MFSA 2016-64/CVE-2016-2838 Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content - MFSA 2016-65/CVE-2016-2839 Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10 - MFSA 2016-67/CVE-2016-5252 Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering - MFSA 2016-70/CVE-2016-5254 Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus - MFSA 2016-72/CVE-2016-5258 Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown - MFSA 2016-73/CVE-2016-5259 Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events - MFSA 2016-76/CVE-2016-5262 Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes - MFSA 2016-77/CVE-2016-2837 Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback - MFSA 2016-78/CVE-2016-5263 Type confusion in display transformation - MFSA 2016-79/CVE-2016-5264 Use-after-free when applying SVG effects - MFSA 2016-80/CVE-2016-5265 Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file - CVE-2016-6354: Fix for possible buffer overrun (bsc#990856) Also a temporary workaround was added : - Temporarily bind Firefox to the first CPU as a hotfix for an apparent race condition (bsc#989196, bsc#990628) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93313 published 2016-09-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93313 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2016:2195-1)
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References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-63.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255270
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3044-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00029.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3640
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92261
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508