RHEL 6 : firefox (RHSA-2019:1765)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126682

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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 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1765 advisory.

- Mozilla: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack (CVE-2019-9811)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 60.8 (CVE-2019-11709)

- Mozilla: Script injection within domain through inner window reuse (CVE-2019-11711)

- Mozilla: Cross-origin POST requests can be made with NPAPI plugins by following 308 redirects (CVE-2019-11712)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream (CVE-2019-11713)

- Mozilla: HTML parsing error can contribute to content XSS (CVE-2019-11715)

- Mozilla: Caret character improperly escaped in origins (CVE-2019-11717)

- Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin (CVE-2019-11730)

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-2019:1765.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126682

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1765.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/15/2019

Updated: 5/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

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-2019-11713

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: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: 7/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712, CVE-2019-11713, CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11717, CVE-2019-11730, CVE-2019-9811

CWE: 120, 138, 212, 416, 79, 807, 829

RHSA: 2019:1765

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