Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1681-1) - Nessus

Critical Plugin ID: 63447

This page contains detailed information about the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1681-1) Nessus plugin including available exploits and PoCs found on GitHub, in Metasploit or Exploit-DB for verifying of this vulnerability.

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Plugin Overview
Vulnerability Information

Synopsis
Description
Solution

Public Exploits
Risk Information
Plugin Source
How to Run
References
Version

Plugin Overview

ID: 63447
Name: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1681-1)
Filename: ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl
Vulnerability Published: 2012-11-21
This Plugin Published: 2013-01-09
Last Modification Time: 2019-09-19
Plugin Version: 1.20
Plugin Type: local
Plugin Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Required KB Items [?]: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Vulnerability Information

Severity: Critical
Vulnerability Published: 2012-11-21
Patch Published: 2013-01-08
CVE [?]: CVE-2012-5829, CVE-2013-0744, CVE-2013-0745, CVE-2013-0746, CVE-2013-0747, CVE-2013-0748, CVE-2013-0749, CVE-2013-0750, CVE-2013-0752, CVE-2013-0753, CVE-2013-0754, CVE-2013-0755, CVE-2013-0756, CVE-2013-0757, CVE-2013-0758, CVE-2013-0759, CVE-2013-0760, CVE-2013-0761, CVE-2013-0762, CVE-2013-0763, CVE-2013-0764, CVE-2013-0766, CVE-2013-0767, CVE-2013-0768, CVE-2013-0769, CVE-2013-0770, CVE-2013-0771
CPE [?]: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox
Exploited by Malware: True

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, Chiaki Ishikawa, Bill Gianopoulos, Benoit Jacob, Gary Kwong, Robert O'Callahan, Jesse Ruderman, and Julian Seward discovered multiple memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0769, CVE-2013-0749, CVE-2013-0770)

Abhishek Arya discovered several user-after-free and buffer overflows in Firefox. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0760, CVE-2013-0761, CVE-2013-0762, CVE-2013-0763, CVE-2013-0766, CVE-2013-0767, CVE-2013-0771, CVE-2012-5829)

A stack buffer was discovered in Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0768)

Masato Kinugawa discovered that Firefox did not always properly display URL values in the address bar. A remote attacker could exploit this to conduct URL spoofing and phishing attacks. (CVE-2013-0759)

Atte Kettunen discovered that Firefox did not properly handle HTML tables with a large number of columns and column groups. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0744)

Jerry Baker discovered that Firefox did not always properly handle threading when performing downloads over SSL connections. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. (CVE-2013-0764)

Olli Pettay and Boris Zbarsky discovered flaws in the Javacript engine of Firefox. An attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0745, CVE-2013-0746)

Jesse Ruderman discovered a flaw in the way Firefox handled plugins. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass security protections to conduct clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2013-0747)

Jesse Ruderman discovered an information leak in Firefox. An attacker could exploit this to reveal memory address layout which could help in bypassing ASLR protections. (CVE-2013-0748)

An integer overflow was discovered in the JavaScript engine, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0750)

Sviatoslav Chagaev discovered that Firefox did not properly handle XBL files with multiple XML bindings with SVG content. An attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0752)

Mariusz Mlynski discovered two flaws to gain access to privileged chrome functions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0757, CVE-2013-0758)

Several use-after-free issues were discovered in Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0753, CVE-2013-0754, CVE-2013-0755, CVE-2013-0756)

Two intermediate CA certificates were mis-issued by the TURKTRUST certificate authority. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. (CVE-2013-0743).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

Public Exploits

Target Network Port(s): N/A
Target Asset(s): N/A
Exploit Available: True (Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB, GitHub, Core Impact)
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Here's the list of publicly known exploits and PoCs for verifying the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1681-1) vulnerability:

Metasploit: exploit/multi/browser/firefox_svg_plugin
[Firefox 17.0.1 Flash Privileged Code Injection]
Metasploit: exploit/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_xmlserializer
[Firefox XMLSerializer Use After Free]
Exploit-DB: exploits/multiple/local/41683.rb
[EDB-41683: Mozilla Firefox < 17.0.1 - Flash Privileged Code Injection (Metasploit)]
Exploit-DB: exploits/windows/remote/27940.rb
[EDB-27940: Mozilla Firefox - XMLSerializer Use-After-Free (Metasploit)]
GitHub: https://github.com/evearias/ciberseguridad-Parcial
[CVE-2013-0757]
GitHub: https://github.com/evearias/ciberseguridad-Parcial
[CVE-2013-0758]

Before running any exploit against any system, make sure you are authorized by the owner of the target system(s) to perform such activity. In any other case, this would be considered as an illegal activity.

WARNING: Beware of using unverified exploits from sources such as GitHub or Exploit-DB. These exploits and PoCs could contain malware. For more information, see how to use exploits safely.

Risk Information

CVSS V2 Vector [?]: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Base Score:	10.0 (High)
Impact Subscore:	10.0
Exploitability Subscore:	10.0
CVSS Temporal Score:	8.7 (High)
CVSS Environmental Score:	NA (None)
Modified Impact Subscore:	NA
Overall CVSS Score:	8.7 (High)

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Plugin Source

This is the ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl nessus plugin source code. Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1681-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(63447);
  script_version("1.20");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:28");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-5829", "CVE-2013-0744", "CVE-2013-0745", "CVE-2013-0746", "CVE-2013-0747", "CVE-2013-0748", "CVE-2013-0749", "CVE-2013-0750", "CVE-2013-0752", "CVE-2013-0753", "CVE-2013-0754", "CVE-2013-0755", "CVE-2013-0756", "CVE-2013-0757", "CVE-2013-0758", "CVE-2013-0759", "CVE-2013-0760", "CVE-2013-0761", "CVE-2013-0762", "CVE-2013-0763", "CVE-2013-0764", "CVE-2013-0766", "CVE-2013-0767", "CVE-2013-0768", "CVE-2013-0769", "CVE-2013-0770", "CVE-2013-0771");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1681-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1681-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, Chiaki Ishikawa,
Bill Gianopoulos, Benoit Jacob, Gary Kwong, Robert O'Callahan, Jesse
Ruderman, and Julian Seward discovered multiple memory safety issues
affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a
denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code
with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0769,
CVE-2013-0749, CVE-2013-0770)

Abhishek Arya discovered several user-after-free and buffer overflows
in Firefox. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0760,
CVE-2013-0761, CVE-2013-0762, CVE-2013-0763, CVE-2013-0766,
CVE-2013-0767, CVE-2013-0771, CVE-2012-5829)

A stack buffer was discovered in Firefox. If the user were tricked
into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly
exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or
potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2013-0768)

Masato Kinugawa discovered that Firefox did not always properly
display URL values in the address bar. A remote attacker could exploit
this to conduct URL spoofing and phishing attacks. (CVE-2013-0759)

Atte Kettunen discovered that Firefox did not properly handle HTML
tables with a large number of columns and column groups. If the user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could
exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or
potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2013-0744)

Jerry Baker discovered that Firefox did not always properly handle
threading when performing downloads over SSL connections. An attacker
could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.
(CVE-2013-0764)

Olli Pettay and Boris Zbarsky discovered flaws in the Javacript engine
of Firefox. An attacker could cause a denial of service via
application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0745, CVE-2013-0746)

Jesse Ruderman discovered a flaw in the way Firefox handled plugins.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, a remote
attacker could exploit this to bypass security protections to conduct
clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2013-0747)

Jesse Ruderman discovered an information leak in Firefox. An attacker
could exploit this to reveal memory address layout which could help in
bypassing ASLR protections. (CVE-2013-0748)

An integer overflow was discovered in the JavaScript engine, leading
to a heap-based buffer overflow. If the user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit this to
execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2013-0750)

Sviatoslav Chagaev discovered that Firefox did not properly handle XBL
files with multiple XML bindings with SVG content. An attacker could
cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially
execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2013-0752)

Mariusz Mlynski discovered two flaws to gain access to privileged
chrome functions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to execute
code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0757,
CVE-2013-0758)

Several use-after-free issues were discovered in Firefox. If the user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could
possibly exploit this to execute code with the privileges of the user
invoking Firefox. (CVE-2013-0753, CVE-2013-0754, CVE-2013-0755,
CVE-2013-0756)

Two intermediate CA certificates were mis-issued by the TURKTRUST
certificate authority. If a remote attacker were able to perform a
man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view
sensitive information. (CVE-2013-0743).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1681-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected firefox package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Firefox 17.0.1 Flash Privileged Code Injection');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/11/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/01/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/01/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10\.04|11\.10|12\.04|12\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 / 12.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"18.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"18.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"18.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"firefox", pkgver:"18.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.3")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "firefox");
}

The latest version of this script can be found in these locations depending on your platform:

Linux / Unix:
/opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl
Windows:
C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugins\ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl
Mac OS X:
/Library/Nessus/run/lib/nessus/plugins/ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl

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How to Run

Here is how to run the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1681-1) as a standalone plugin via the Nessus web user interface (https://localhost:8834/):

Click to start a New Scan.
Select Advanced Scan.
Navigate to the Plugins tab.
On the top right corner click to Disable All plugins.
On the left side table select Ubuntu Local Security Checks plugin family.
On the right side table select Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1681-1) plugin ID 63447.
Specify the target on the Settings tab and click to Save the scan.
Run the scan.

Here are a few examples of how to run the plugin in the command line. Note that the examples below demonstrate the usage on the Linux / Unix platform.

Basic usage:

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

Run the plugin with audit trail message on the console:

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl -a ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

Run the plugin with trace script execution written to the console (useful for debugging):

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl -T - ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

Run the plugin with using a state file for the target and updating it (useful for running multiple plugins on the target):

/opt/nessus/bin/nasl -K /tmp/state ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl -t <IP/HOST>

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References

USN | Ubuntu Security Notice:

1681-1

See also:

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63546 - Thunderbird 10.x < 10.0.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)
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63550 - Firefox ESR 17.x < 17.0.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
63551 - Firefox < 18.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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63445 - RHEL 5 / 6 : firefox (RHSA-2013:0144)
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63554 - SeaMonkey < 2.15 Multiple Vulnerabilities
63471 - Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130108)
63472 - Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130108)
64136 - SuSE 11.2 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SAT Patch Number 7224)
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Version

This page has been produced using Nessus Professional 10.1.2 (#68) LINUX, Plugin set 202205072148.
Plugin file ubuntu_USN-1681-1.nasl version 1.20. For more plugins, visit the Nessus Plugin Library.

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Vulnerability Information

Synopsis

Description

Solution

Public Exploits

Risk Information

Plugin Source

How to Run

References

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