RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2020:3254)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139201

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-2020:3254 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.11.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2020-6463)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebRTC (CVE-2020-6514)

* Mozilla: Potential leak of redirect targets when loading scripts in a worker (CVE-2020-15652)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 79 and Firefox ESR 68.11 (CVE-2020-15659)

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-2020:3254.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0dc35f3d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3254

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1840893

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1857349

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861570

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861572

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-31/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139201

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3254.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2020

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: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15659

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6463

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 7/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15652, CVE-2020-15659, CVE-2020-6463, CVE-2020-6514

CWE: 120, 209, 416

IAVA: 2020-A-0314-S, 2020-A-0344-S

RHSA: 2020:3254