Oracle Linux 6 : firefox (ELSA-2018-3006)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118709

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-3006 advisory.

[60.3.0-1.0.1]
- fix LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- Add firefox-oracle-default-prefs.js and remove the corresponding Red Hat one

[60.3.0-1]
- Update to 60.3.0 ESR

[60.2.2-2]
- Added patch for rhbz#1633932

[60.2.2-1]
- Update to 60.2.2 ESR

[60.2.1-1]
- Update to 60.2.1 ESR

[60.2.0-1]
- Update to 60.2.0 ESR

[60.1.0-9]
- Do not set user agent (rhbz#1608065)
- GTK dialogs are localized now (rhbz#1619373)
- JNLP association works again (rhbz#1607457)

[60.1.0-8]
- Fixed homepage and bookmarks (rhbz#1606778)
- Fixed missing file associations in RHEL6 (rhbz#1613565)

[60.1.0-7]
- Run at-spi-bus if not running already (for the bundled gtk3)

[60.1.0-6]
- Fix for missing schemes for bundled gtk3

[60.1.0-5]
- Added mesa-libEGL dependency to gtk3/rhel6

[60.1.0-4]
- Disabled jemalloc on all second arches

[60.1.0-3]
- Updated to 60.1.0 ESR build2

[60.1.0-2]
- Disabled jemalloc on second arches

[60.1.0-1]
- Updated to 60.1.0 ESR

[60.0-12]
- Fixing bundled libffi issues
- Readded some requirements

[60.0-10]
- Added fix for mozilla BZ#1436242 - IPC crashes.

[60.0-9]
- Bundling libffi for the sec-arches
- Added openssl-devel for the Python
- Fixing bundled gtk3

[60.0-8]
- Added fix for mozilla BZ#1458492

[60.0-7]
- Added patch from rhbz#1498561 to fix ppc64(le) crashes.

[60.0-6]
- Disabled jemalloc on second arches

[60.0-4]
- Update to 60.0 ESR

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected firefox package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-3006.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118709

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-3006.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2018

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2018-12392

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:oracle:linux:firefox, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16541, CVE-2018-12376, CVE-2018-12377, CVE-2018-12378, CVE-2018-12379, CVE-2018-12386, CVE-2018-12387, CVE-2018-12389, CVE-2018-12390, CVE-2018-12392, CVE-2018-12393, CVE-2018-12395, CVE-2018-12396, CVE-2018-12397

RHSA: 2018:3006