Security Bulletin
Summary
Vulnerability in libxml, openssh, PAM, Firefox, affects IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance (CVE-2015-1819, CVE-2015-3238, CVE-2015-5600 and others).
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-1819
DESCRIPTION: Libxml is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error in the xmlreader when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107272 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2015-3238
DESCRIPTION: Linux-PAM could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the _unix_run_helper_binary function in the pam_unix module. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an overly large password to enumerate usernames and cause the system to hang.
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106368 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2015-5600
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the keyboard-interactive authentication mechanism that allows successive authentications that exceed the MaxAuthTries setting. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using brute-force techniques to crack the victim's password.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104877 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-4513
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107789 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2015-4514
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107790 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2015-4515
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the population of the Workstation field with the hostname of the system making the request. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site and sending a silent NTLM request, ne attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the hostname and Windows domain.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107791 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-4518
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an insecure allowlist that allows HTML content. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass CSP protections of Reader mode and possibly launch cross-site scripting attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107792 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7181
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-poison in the sec_asn1d_parse_leaf() function. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107814 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7182
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when decoding constructed OCTET STRING. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107815 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7183
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107816 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7184
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper implementation of the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) specification by the fetch() API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) restrictions and gain access private data from other origins.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107151 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7185
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by the failure to restore the address bar when the window is redrawn in normal mode when Firefox for Android exits fullscreen mode. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to spoof the address bar.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107793 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7186
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the downloading of a locally saved HTML file could use file: URIs. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to open cached data.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107794 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7187
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an error when a panel is created using the Add-on SDK in a browser extension. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to possibly execute script content in an extension that has been disabled.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107795 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7188
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the different evaluation of trailing whitespaces when parsing IP addresses instead of alphanumeric hostnames. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass same-origin policy and possibly conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107796 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7192
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error related to the requesting of the index of a table row through the NSAccessibilityIndexAttribute value by the accessibility tool. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107805 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7189
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the JPEGEncoder function. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107797 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7190
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the registering and launching of a search engine through an Android intent. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to load local HTML files and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107798 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7191
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper sterilization of opened addresses. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using Android intents and fallback navigation to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107804 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7193
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an implementation error with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) preflight requests when receiving non-standard Content-Type headers. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass CORS preflight.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107806 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7200
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by missing status check in CryptoKey. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107812 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7194
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer underflow in libjar. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107807 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7195
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by the incorrect parsing of certain escaped characters in hostnames. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to redirect the victim to a different site.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107808 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7196
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the deallocation of a JavaScript wrapper while it is still in use by the java plugin. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to cause a JavaScript garbage collection crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107809 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7197
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error in a mechanism when web workers are used to create WebSockets. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to bypass mixed content WebSocket policy and launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107813 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7198
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by TextureStorage11 in the ANGLE graphics library. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107810 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7199
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by missing status checks in AddWeightedPathSegLists and SVGPathSegListSMILType::Interpolate. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107811 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance.
Remediation/Fixes
If you are running IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance, contact IBM support.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
* 18 November 2015: Original copy published
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Internal Use Only
CVE-IDs: CVE-2015-1819, CVE-2015-3238, CVE-2015-5600
Firefox CVEs:CVE-2015-4500 CVE-2015-4506 CVE-2015-4509 CVE-2015-4511 CVE-2015-4517 CVE-2015-4519 CVE-2015-4520 CVE-2015-4521 CVE-2015-4522 CVE-2015-7174 CVE-2015-7175 CVE-2015-7176 CVE-2015-7177 CVE-2015-7180 CVE-2015-4513 CVE-2015-7188 CVE-2015-7189 CVE-2015-7193 CVE-2015-7194 CVE-2015-7196 CVE-2015-7197 CVE-2015-7198 CVE-2015-7199 CVE-2015-7200
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Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21970698