RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2018:3833)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119735

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

- chromium-browser, firefox: 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)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119735

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

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/18/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

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