RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2022:4876)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161781

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-2022:4876 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.10.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Cross-Origin resource's length leaked (CVE-2022-31736)

* Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2022-31737)

* Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-31738)

* Mozilla: Register allocation problem in WASM on arm64 (CVE-2022-31740)

* Mozilla: Uninitialized variable leads to invalid memory read (CVE-2022-31741)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 101 and Firefox ESR 91.10 (CVE-2022-31747)

* Mozilla: Querying a WebAuthn token with a large number of allowCredential entries may have leaked cross- origin information (CVE-2022-31742)

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-2022:4876.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?be31570e

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4876

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092018

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092019

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092021

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092023

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092024

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092025

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092026

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161781

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-4876.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/2/2022

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31747

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2

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: 6/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31736, CVE-2022-31737, CVE-2022-31738, CVE-2022-31740, CVE-2022-31741, CVE-2022-31742, CVE-2022-31747

CWE: 1021, 120, 457, 770, 829

IAVA: 2022-A-0226-S

RHSA: 2022:4876