Security Bulletin: Mozilla firefox vulnerability issues on IBM SONAS (CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1497, CVE-2014-1505, CVE-2014-1508, CVE-2014-1509, CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511, CVE-2014-1512, CVE-2014-1513, CVE-2014-1514)

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:
CVE-2014-1493
CVE-2014-1497
CVE-2014-1505
CVE-2014-1508
CVE-2014-1509
CVE-2014-1510
CVE-2014-1511
CVE-2014-1512
CVE-2014-1513
CVE-2014-1514

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 would implicate these vulnerabilities, we recommend applying the fixes available.

CVE-2014-1493
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91855 for the current score

CVE-2014-1497
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91858 for the current score

CVE-2014-1505
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91871 for the current score

CVE-2014-1508
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91867 for the current score

CVE-2014-1509
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91868 for the current score

CVE-2014-1510
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91873 for the current score

CVE-2014-1511
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91874 for the current score

CVE-2014-1512
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91877 for the current score

CVE-2014-1513
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91881 for the current score

CVE-2014-1514
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/91882 for the current score

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SONAS
The product is affected when running code releases 1.3.0.0 to 1.4.3.2.

Remediation/Fixes

Fixes for these issues are in version 1.4.3.3 of IBM SONAS. Customers running an affected version of SONAS should upgrade to SONAS 1.4.3.3 or a later version, so that the fix gets applied.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Work-around(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.