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Mozilla Firefox < 91.0

high Nessus Plugin ID 152413

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Synopsis

A web browser installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 91.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2021-33 advisory.

 - A suspected race condition when calling getaddrinfo led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. Note: This issue only affected Linux operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2021-29986)

 - An issue present in lowering/register allocation could have led to obscure but deterministic register confusion failures in JITted code that would lead to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-29981)

 - Firefox incorrectly treated an inline list-item element as a block element, resulting in an out of bounds read or memory corruption, and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-29988)

 - Firefox for Android could get stuck in fullscreen mode and not exit it even after normal interactions that should cause it to exit. Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2021-29983)

 - Instruction reordering resulted in a sequence of instructions that would cause an object to be incorrectly considered during garbage collection. This led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.
 (CVE-2021-29984)

 - Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have caused an incorrect free() leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-29980)

 - After requesting multiple permissions, and closing the first permission panel, subsequent permission panels will be displayed in a different position but still record a click in the default location, making it possible to trick a user into accepting a permission they did not want to.This bug only affects Firefox on Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected. (CVE-2021-29987)

 - A use-after-free vulnerability in media channels could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2021-29985)

 - Due to incorrect JIT optimization, we incorrectly interpreted data from the wrong type of object, resulting in the potential leak of a single bit of memory. (CVE-2021-29982)

 - Mozilla developers Christoph Kerschbaumer, Olli Pettay, Sandor Molnar, and Simon Giesecke reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-29989)

 - Mozilla developers and community members Kershaw Chang, Philipp, Chris Peterson, and Sebastian Hengst reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 90. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2021-29990)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 91.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-33/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152413

File Name: macos_firefox_91_0.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 8/10/2021

Updated: 12/4/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29990

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Firefox/Installed

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29980, CVE-2021-29981, CVE-2021-29982, CVE-2021-29983, CVE-2021-29984, CVE-2021-29985, CVE-2021-29986, CVE-2021-29987, CVE-2021-29988, CVE-2021-29989, CVE-2021-29990

IAVA: 2021-A-0366-S