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Fedora 27 : mozilla-noscript (2018-09c51bbcec)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117813

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Changes since 10.1.8.16: ===

v 10.1.9.6 =============================================================

 - [TB] Gracefully handle legacy external message recipients

 - [XSS] Updated known HTML5 events

 - Better IPV6 support

 - UI support for protocol-only entries

v 10.1.9.5 =============================================================

 - Fix for various content script timing related issues (thanks therube for reporting)

v 10.1.9.4 =============================================================

 - Prevent total breakages when policies accidentally map to invalid match patterns

 - Internal messaging dispatch better coping with multiple option windows

 - Avoid multiple CSP DOM insertions

v 10.1.9.3 =============================================================

 - Fixed message handling regression breaking embedders and causing potential internal message loops

v 10.1.9.2 =============================================================

 - More efficient window.name-based tab-scoped permissions persistence

 - Fixed URL parsing bugs

 - Fixed bug in requestKey generation

 - [Build] Enhanced TLD data update subsystem

 - [UI] CUSTOM presets gets initialized with currently applied preset, including temporary/permanent status

 - Improved internal message dispatching, avoiding potential race conditions

 - [L10n] Transifex integration

 - Work-around for DOM-injected CSP not being honored when appended to the root element, rather than HEAD

 - Transparent support for FQDNs

 - Better file: protocol support

 - Full-page placeholders for media/plugin documents

v 10.1.9.1 =============================================================

 - Fixed NOSCRIPT emulation not running in contexts where service workers are disabled, such as private windows (thanks Peter Wu for patch)

v 10.1.9 =============================================================

 - Completely revamped CSP backend, enforcing policies both in webRequest and in the DOM

 - Reload-less service worker busting

 - removed obsoleted failsafes, including forced reloads

 - Better timing for popup UI feedback on permissions changes

 - Send out a 'started' message after initialization to help embedders (like the Tor browser) interact with NoScript

 - Updated TLDs

v 10.1.8.23 =============================================================

 - Hotfix for reload loops before CSP management refactoring

v 10.1.8.22 =============================================================

 - Fixed reload loop on unrestricted tabs (thanks random for reporting)

v 10.1.8.20 =============================================================

 - Fixed Sites.domainImplies() misplaced optimization.

 - [L10n] Added Catalan (ca)

v 10.1.8.19 =============================================================

 - Fixed onResponseHeader failing on session restore because of onBeforeRequest not having being called.

 - Fixed regression: framed documents' URLs not being reported in the UI (thanks xaex for report)

v 10.1.8.18 =============================================================

 - More resilient and optimized Sites.domainImplies()

 - Update ChildPolicies when automatic temp TRUST for top-level documents is enabled

 - Fixed messages from content scripts being 'eaten' by the wrong dispatcher when UI is open (thanks skriptimaahinen)

 - Fixed typo causing accidental permissions/status mismatches being checked only while pages are still loading (thanks skriptimaahinen)

 - Fixed typo in XSS name sanitization script injection (thanks skriptimaahinen)

v 10.1.8.17 =============================================================

 - Fix: Sites.domainImplies() should match subdomains

 - More coherent wrapper around the webex messaging API

 - Fixed inconsistencies affecting ChildPolicies content script auto-generated matching rules.

 - Fixed potential issues with cross-process messages

 - Simpler and more reliable safety net to ensure CSP headers are injected last among WebExtensions

 - Fixed regression causing refresh loops on pages which use type='object' requests to load images, css and other types

 - [L10n] ru and de translations

 - [XSS] Updated HTML events auto-generate matching code to use both latest Mozilla source code and archived data since Firefox ESR 52

 - New dynamic scripts management strategy based on the browser.contentScripts API, should fix some elusive, likely requestFilter-induced, bugs

 - Fixed no-dot domains threated as empty TLDs (thanks Peter Wu for patch)

 - Removed requestFilter hack for dynamic scripts management

 - [L10n] br and tr translations (thanks Transifex/OTF, https://www.transifex.com/otf/noscript/)

 - Best effort to have webRequest.onHeaderReceived listener run last (issue #6, thanks kkapsner)

 - [L10n] Localized 'NoScript Options' title (thanks Diklabyte)

 - Fixed inline scripts not being reported to UI (thanks skriptimaahinen for patch)

 - Skip non-content windows when deferring startup page loads (thanks Rob Wu for reporting)

 - Broader detection of UTF-8 encoding in responses (thanks Rob Wu for reporting)

 - Improved support for debugging code removal in releases

 - Fixed startup race condition with pending request tracking

 - Fixed updating NoScript reloads tabs with revoked temporary permissions.

Legacy version: ===

v 5.1.8.7 =============================================================

 - [Security] Fixed script blocking bypass zero-day (thanks Zerodium for unresponsible disclosure, https://twitter.com/Zerodium/status/1039127214602641409)

 - [Surrogate] Fixed typo in 2mdn replacement (thansk barbaz)

 - [XSS] Fixed InjectionChecker choking at some big JSON payloads sents as POST form data

 - [XSS] In-depth protection against native ES6 modules abuse

 - Fixed classic beta channel users being accidentally migrated to stable (thanks barbaz)

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Solution

Update the affected mozilla-noscript package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-09c51bbcec

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 117813

File Name: fedora_2018-09c51bbcec.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2018

Updated: 8/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16983

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozilla-noscript

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16983