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CentOS 8 : firefox (CESA-2019:1269)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 145688

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2019:1269 advisory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1269

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 145688

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2019-1269.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2021

Updated: 12/5/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2019

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

BID: 107009, 107363, 107486, 108098, 108418

RHSA: 2019:1269