USN-2538-1

A flaw was discovered in the implementation of typed array bounds checking in the Javascript just-in-time compilation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-0817)

Mariusz Mlynski discovered a flaw in the processing of SVG format content navigation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to run arbitrary script in a privileged context. (CVE-2015-0818)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / firefox

Package

Name: firefox
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox@36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

24.*

24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

25.*

25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

28.*

28.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu2

28.0+build1-0ubuntu1

28.0+build2-0ubuntu1

28.0+build2-0ubuntu2

29.*

29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

30.*

30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

31.*

31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

32.*

32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

33.*

33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

34.*

34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

35.*

35.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

35.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

36.*

36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox",
            "binary_version": "36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-globalmenu",
            "binary_version": "36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-mozsymbols",
            "binary_version": "36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "firefox-testsuite",
            "binary_version": "36.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-0817",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-0818",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2538-1.json"