RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2019:1265)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 125382

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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-2019:1265 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.7.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 67 and Firefox ESR 60.7 (CVE-2019-9800)

* Mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with createImageBitmap (CVE-2019-9797)

* Mozilla: Type confusion with object groups and UnboxedObjects (CVE-2019-9816)

* Mozilla: Stealing of cross-domain images using canvas (CVE-2019-9817)

* Mozilla: Compartment mismatch with fetch API (CVE-2019-9819)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free of ChromeEventHandler by DocShell (CVE-2019-9820)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest (CVE-2019-11691)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free removing listeners in the event listener manager (CVE-2019-11692)

* Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL bufferdata on Linux (CVE-2019-11693)

* mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with ImageBitmapRenderingContext (CVE-2018-18511)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in Skia (CVE-2019-5798)

* Mozilla: Theft of user history data through drag and drop of hyperlinks to and from bookmarks (CVE-2019-11698)

* libpng: use-after-free in png_image_free in png.c (CVE-2019-7317)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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-2019:1265.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 125382

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1265.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/24/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9820

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: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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18511, CVE-2019-11691, CVE-2019-11692, CVE-2019-11693, CVE-2019-11698, CVE-2019-5798, CVE-2019-7317, CVE-2019-9797, CVE-2019-9800, CVE-2019-9816, CVE-2019-9817, CVE-2019-9819, CVE-2019-9820

CWE: 120, 400, 416, 567, 829, 843

RHSA: 2019:1265

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