RHEL 6 / 7 : firefox (RHSA-2017:3382)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105018

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for firefox.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3382 advisory.

- Mozilla: Web worker in Private Browsing mode can write IndexedDB data (CVE-2017-7843)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL firefox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:3382.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?65d8dd66

http://www.nessus.org/u?ba400a88

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3382

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1518566

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105018

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3382.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/5/2017

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7843

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7843

CWE: 212

RHSA: 2017:3382