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HistoryMay 04, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

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

2015-05-0400:00:00
Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG
plugins.openvas.org
10

9.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.078 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.2%

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a use after free vulnerability.

# 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);
}

9.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.078 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.2%