RHEL 9 : firefox (RHSA-2022:6174)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164401

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for firefox.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6174 advisory.

- Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling (CVE-2022-38472)

- Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions (CVE-2022-38473)

- Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW (CVE-2022-38476)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2 (CVE-2022-38477)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13 (CVE-2022-38478)

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-2022:6174.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b896bf57

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6174

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120673

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120674

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120678

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120695

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120696

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164401

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6174.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2022-38478

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox

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: 8/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38472, CVE-2022-38473, CVE-2022-38476, CVE-2022-38477, CVE-2022-38478

CWE: 1021, 120, 356, 416

IAVA: 2022-A-0339-S

RHSA: 2022:6174