RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2022:8550)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168033

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-2022:8550 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.5.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Service Workers might have learned size of cross-origin media files (CVE-2022-45403)

* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification bypass (CVE-2022-45404)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in InputStream implementation (CVE-2022-45405)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free of a JavaScript Realm (CVE-2022-45406)

* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification bypass via windowName (CVE-2022-45408)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in Garbage Collection (CVE-2022-45409)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 107 and Firefox ESR 102.5 (CVE-2022-45421)

* Mozilla: ServiceWorker-intercepted requests bypassed SameSite cookie policy (CVE-2022-45410)

* Mozilla: Cross-Site Tracing was possible via non-standard override headers (CVE-2022-45411)

* Mozilla: Symlinks may resolve to partially uninitialized buffers (CVE-2022-45412)

* Mozilla: Keystroke Side-Channel Leakage (CVE-2022-45416)

* Mozilla: Custom mouse cursor could have been drawn over browser UI (CVE-2022-45418)

* Mozilla: Iframe contents could be rendered outside the iframe (CVE-2022-45420)

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-2022:8550.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143205

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143240

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143241

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143242

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143243

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?098715b6

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8550

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143197

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143198

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143199

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143200

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143201

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143202

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143203

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143204

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168033

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8550.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45421

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45406

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2

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: 11/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-43680, CVE-2022-45403, CVE-2022-45404, CVE-2022-45405, CVE-2022-45406, CVE-2022-45408, CVE-2022-45409, CVE-2022-45410, CVE-2022-45411, CVE-2022-45412, CVE-2022-45416, CVE-2022-45418, CVE-2022-45420, CVE-2022-45421

CWE: 1021, 120, 1275, 200, 416, 79, 829

IAVA: 2022-A-0491-S

RHSA: 2022:8550