RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2021:3159)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152589

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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-2021:3159 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 78.13.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have led to memory corruption (CVE-2021-29980)

* Mozilla: Incorrect instruction reordering during JIT optimization (CVE-2021-29984)

* Mozilla: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led to memory corruption (CVE-2021-29986)

* Mozilla: Memory corruption as a result of incorrect style treatment (CVE-2021-29988)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.13 (CVE-2021-29989)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free media channels (CVE-2021-29985)

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-2021:3159.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152589

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3159.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/22/2021

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2021-29989

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:/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: 8/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29980, CVE-2021-29984, CVE-2021-29985, CVE-2021-29986, CVE-2021-29988, CVE-2021-29989

CWE: 119, 120, 367, 416, 908

IAVA: 2021-A-0366-S

RHSA: 2021:3159

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