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Mozilla Firefox Plugin Initialization Use-after-free Vulnerability (Apr 2015) - Mac OS X

🗓️ 04 May 2015 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AGType 
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Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox plugin initialization on Mac OS X (Apr 2015

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.805545");
  script_version("2024-02-08T14:36:53+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2706");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-08 14:36:53 +0000 (Thu, 08 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-05-04 14:39:13 +0530 (Mon, 04 May 2015)");
  script_name("Mozilla Firefox Plugin Initialization Use-after-free Vulnerability (Apr 2015) - Mac OS X");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to a use after free vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The error exists due to a use-after-free
  error related to the 'AsyncPaintWaitEvent::AsyncPaintWaitEvent' function that
  is triggered when a race condition occurs when plugin initialization fails.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote
  attacker to conduct denial-of-service attack and potentially execute arbitrary
  code.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox before version 37.0.2
  on Mac OS X");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 37.0.2
  or later.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-45");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("General");
  script_dependencies("gb_mozilla_prdts_detect_macosx.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Mozilla/Firefox/MacOSX/Version");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!ffVer = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
   exit(0);
}

if(version_is_less(version:ffVer, test_version:"37.0.2"))
{
  report = 'Installed version: ' + ffVer + '\n' +
           'Fixed version:     ' + "37.0.2"  + '\n';
  security_message(data:report);
  exit(0);
}

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