Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-4317-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135229

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Two use-after-free bugs were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4317-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135229

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4317-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/6/2020

Updated: 1/21/2022

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

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6820

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2020

CISA Known Exploited Dates: 5/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6819, CVE-2020-6820

USN: 4317-1

IAVA: 2020-A-0128-S