RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2022:0818)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158803

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-2022:0818 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.7.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in XSLT parameter processing (CVE-2022-26485)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGPU IPC Framework (CVE-2022-26486)

* expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)

* expat: Namespace-separator characters in xmlns[:prefix] attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236)

* expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in text reflows (CVE-2022-26381)

* Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-26383)

* Mozilla: iframe allow-scripts sandbox bypass (CVE-2022-26384)

* Mozilla: Time-of-check time-of-use bug when verifying add-on signatures (CVE-2022-26387)

* Mozilla: Temporary files downloaded to /tmp and accessible by other local users (CVE-2022-26386)

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-2022:0818.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a04666aa

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0818

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056363

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056366

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056370

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2061735

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2061736

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062220

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062221

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062222

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062223

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062224

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158803

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0818.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2022

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: High

Score: 8.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25315

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 3/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2022

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25315, CVE-2022-26381, CVE-2022-26383, CVE-2022-26384, CVE-2022-26386, CVE-2022-26387, CVE-2022-26485, CVE-2022-26486

CWE: 179, 281, 367, 416, 449, 787, 838

IAVA: 2022-A-0103-S

RHSA: 2022:0818