Security Bulletin: Mozilla Firefox vulnerability in IBM SONAS (CVE-2018-12385)

Summary

There is a security vulnerability in versions of Mozilla Firefox that are shipped with versions 1.5.1.0 to 1.5.2.9 of IBM SONAS

Vulnerability Details

IBM SONAS is shipped with Mozilla Firefox. There are vulnerabilities in certain versions of Mozilla Firefox shipped in certain versions of IBM SONAS. These vulnerabilities concern the potential ability of a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.

CVEID: CVE-2018-12385 DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by cached data in the user profile directory. By exploiting a separate vulnerability and writing data to the local cache or from locally installed malware, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the browser.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150240&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SONAS
The product is affected when running code releases 1.5.1.0 to 1.5.2.9

Remediation/Fixes

A fix for these issues is in version 1.5.2.10 of IBM SONAS. Customers running an affected version of IBM SONAS should upgrade to 1.5.2.10 or a later version, so that the fix gets applied.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Workaround(s) :
Normal operation of IBM SONAS does not require or call for customers to use Firefox to access the Internet. Although IBM recommends that you install a level of IBM SONAS code with a fix, you can avoid these vulnerabilities by not using Mozilla Firefox within your IBM SONAS system to access the Internet.

Mitigation: None