Security Bulletin: Open Source Mozilla Firefox vulnerability in IBM Storwize V7000 Unified (CVE-2015-0801, CVE-2015-0807, CVE-2015-0813, CVE-2015-0815, CVE-2015-0816,CVE-2015-0817, CVE-2015-0818, CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709)

Summary

A fix is available for IBM Storwize V7000 Unified, for the Open Source Mozilla Firefox security vulnerabilities found in March 2015.

Vulnerability Details

IBM Storwize V7000 Unified is shipped with Mozilla Firefox .There are vulnerabilities in certain versions of Mozilla Firefox shipped in certain versions of IBM Storwize V7000 Unified. This vulnerability concerns the potential ability of a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

CVEID: CVE-2015-0801

**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass cross-domain security restrictions. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using attack vectors related to anchor navigation to bypass same-origin policy restrictions and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102015 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-0807

**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the navigator.sendBeacon implementation. By persuading an authenticated user to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could send a malformed HTTP request to perform unauthorized actions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102010 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-0813

**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free when playing certain MP3 format audio files on the web using the Fluendo MP3 plugin for GStreamer on Linux. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102004 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2015-0815

**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102003 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C))

CVEID: CVE-2015-0816

**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass cross-domain security restrictions, caused by an error when loading documents through a ‘resource:’ URL. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could bypass same-origin policy restrictions and load privileged chrome pages and obtain sensitive information from the system.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102006&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-0817

**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the JavaScript just-in-time compilation (JIT) engine. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101739&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-0818

DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error when processing SVG format content navigation. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101738&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-2708

DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 9.300
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103206&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2015-2709

DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 9.300
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103207&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
The product is affected when running a code releases 1.3.0.0 to 1.5.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

A fix for these issues is in version 1.5.2.1 of IBM Storwize V7000 Unified. Customers running an affected version of V7000 Unified should upgrade to 1.5.2.1 or a later version, so that the fix gets applied.

Latest Storwize V7000 Unified Software

Workarounds and Mitigations

Workaround(s): None

Mitigation(s): Ensure that all users who have access to the system are authenticated by another security system such as a firewall.