RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2018:3833)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119735

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3833 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.4.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4 (CVE-2018-12405)

* Mozilla: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element (CVE-2018-18492)

* Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia (CVE-2018-18493)

* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs (CVE-2018-18494)

* Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images (CVE-2018-18498)

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 Christian Holler, Diego Calleja, Andrew McCreight, Jon Coppeard, Natalia Csoregi, Nicolas B. Pierron, Tyson Smith, Nils, Atte Kettunen, James Lee of Kryptos Logic, and r 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-2018:3833.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1bcae388

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-30/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3833

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1640102

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658397

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658399

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658400

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658401

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658402

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119735

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3833.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

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-2018-18498

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12405, CVE-2018-17466, CVE-2018-18492, CVE-2018-18493, CVE-2018-18494, CVE-2018-18498

CWE: 120, 190, 416, 829

RHSA: 2018:3833