RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2020:3555)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139811

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-2020:3555 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.2.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Attacker-induced prompt for extension installation (CVE-2020-15664)

* Mozilla: Use-After-Free when aborting an operation (CVE-2020-15669)

* Mozilla: Integer overflow in nsJPEGEncoder::emptyOutputBuffer (CVE-2020-12422)

* Mozilla: X-Frame-Options bypass using object or embed tags (CVE-2020-15648)

* Mozilla: Bypassing iframe sandbox when allowing popups (CVE-2020-15653)

* Mozilla: Type confusion for special arguments in IonMonkey (CVE-2020-15656)

* Mozilla: WebRTC permission prompt could have been bypassed by a compromised content process (CVE-2020-12424)

* Mozilla: Out of bound read in Date.parse() (CVE-2020-12425)

* Mozilla: Custom cursor can overlay user interface (CVE-2020-15654)

* Mozilla: Overriding file type when saving to disk (CVE-2020-15658)

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-2020:3555.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?514dde8a

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3555

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861645

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861646

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861647

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861649

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872531

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872532

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872537

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872538

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872539

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872540

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139811

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3555.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/26/2020

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: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15656

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15669

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.0

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: 8/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12422, CVE-2020-12424, CVE-2020-12425, CVE-2020-15648, CVE-2020-15653, CVE-2020-15654, CVE-2020-15656, CVE-2020-15658, CVE-2020-15664, CVE-2020-15669

CWE: 125, 138, 190, 276, 416, 451, 648, 843

IAVA: 2020-A-0287-S, 2020-A-0344-S, 2020-A-0391-S

RHSA: 2020:3555