RHEL 6 : firefox (RHSA-2018:1414)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109834

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for firefox.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1414 advisory.

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.8.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5150)

* Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia (CVE-2018-5183)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths (CVE-2018-5154)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths (CVE-2018-5155)

* Mozilla: Same-origin bypass of PDF Viewer to view protected PDF files (CVE-2018-5157)

* Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer (CVE-2018-5158)

* Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia (CVE-2018-5159)

* Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction (CVE-2018-5168)

* Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension (CVE-2018-5178)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christoph Diehl, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Alex Gaynor, Ronald Crane, Julian Hector, Kannan Vijayan, Jason Kratzer, Mozilla Developers, Nils, Wladimir Palant, Ivan Fratric, and Root Object as the original reporters.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-2018:1414.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bc4e05c7

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576250

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576255

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576257

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576258

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576259

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576260

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576269

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576278

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576283

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 109834

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1414.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5183

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5154, CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5157, CVE-2018-5158, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5168, CVE-2018-5178, CVE-2018-5183

CWE: 120, 416, 829, 862, 95

RHSA: 2018:1414