Security Bulletin: Mozilla firefox vulnerability issues on IBM SONAS (CVE-2014-1555, CVE-2014-1556, CVE-2014-1557)

Summary

SONAS is shipped with Mozilla firefox, for which fixes are available for security vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:
CVE-2014-1555
CVE-2014-1556
CVE-2014-1557

DESCRIPTION:
SONAS is shipped with Mozilla firefox. Fixes are available for the security vulnerabilities found with Mozilla firefox. None of these vulnerabilities are exploitable during usual operations of SONAS system. Nevertheless, since using firefox to access the Internet might cause expose to these vulnerabilities, we recommend applying the fixes available.

CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/94774 for the current score

CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/94775 for the current score

CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/94777 for the current score

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SONAS
The product is affected when running code releases 1.3.0.0 to 1.4.3.3

Remediation/Fixes

A fix for these issues is in version 1.4.3.4 of IBM SONAS. Customers running an affected version of IBM SONAS should upgrade to 1.4.3.4 or a later version, so that the fix gets applied.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Workaround(s) :
Use of Mozilla firefox for accessing web sites from SONAS system should be avoided.

Mitigation(s) :
None of these vulnerabilities are exploitable during usual operations of SONAS system. Service personnel should not use Mozilla firefox from SONAS nodes to access the Internet.