RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2020:1406)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 137246

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1406 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.7.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Uninitialized memory could be read when using the WebGL copyTexSubImage method (CVE-2020-6821)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 75 and Firefox ESR 68.7 (CVE-2020-6825)

* Mozilla: Out of bounds write in GMPDecodeData when processing large images (CVE-2020-6822)

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-2020:1406.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?06977a35

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1406

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821674

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821676

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821682

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 137246

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1406.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/9/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: Important

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-2020-6825

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: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 4/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6821, CVE-2020-6822, CVE-2020-6825

CWE: 119, 120

IAVA: 2020-A-0128-S

RHSA: 2020:1406