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Mozilla Firefox Security Advisories (MFSA2018-22, MFSA2018-23) - Mac OS X

🗓️ 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType 
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Mozilla Firefox denial of service vulnerability on Mac OS

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.814047");
  script_version("2025-09-19T15:40:40+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-12385");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.4");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-19 15:40:40 +0000 (Fri, 19 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-12-06 19:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 06 Dec 2018)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-09-25 11:34:21 +0530 (Tue, 25 Sep 2018)");
  script_name("Mozilla Firefox Security Advisories (MFSA2018-22, MFSA2018-23) - Mac OS X");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to data stored in the
  local cache in the user profile directory.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attackers
  to write data into the local cache or from locally installed malware. This issue
  also triggers a non-exploitable startup crash for users.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version before 62.0.2 on
  Mac OS X.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 62.0.2
  or later. Please see the references for more information.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-22");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 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(!infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE )) exit(0);
ffVer = infos["version"];
ffPath = infos["location"];

if(version_is_less(version:ffVer, test_version:"62.0.2"))
{
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:ffVer, fixed_version:"62.0.2", install_path:ffPath);
  security_message(data:report);
  exit(0);
}

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