RHEL 6 : firefox (RHSA-2018:2881)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117971

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-2018:2881 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.2.2 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: type confusion in JavaScript (CVE-2018-12386)

* Mozilla: stack out-of-bounds read in Array.prototype.push (CVE-2018-12387)

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. The upstream acknowledges Niklas Baumstark, Samuel Gro, and Bruno Keith as the original reporters, via Beyond Security's SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program.

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-2018:2881.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ac0a53ec

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-24/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2881

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635451

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635452

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 117971

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2881.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2018

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12387

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 10/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12386, CVE-2018-12387

CWE: 125, 787

RHSA: 2018:2881