RHEL 9 : firefox (RHSA-2023:0809)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171640

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-2023:0809 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.8.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Content security policy leak in violation reports using iframes (CVE-2023-25728)

* Mozilla: Screen hijack via browser fullscreen mode (CVE-2023-25730)

* Mozilla: Potential use-after-free from compartment mismatch in SpiderMonkey (CVE-2023-25735)

* Mozilla: Invalid downcast in SVGUtils::SetupStrokeGeometry (CVE-2023-25737)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in mozilla::dom::ScriptLoadContext::~ScriptLoadContext (CVE-2023-25739)

* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification not shown in Firefox Focus (CVE-2023-25743)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 110 and Firefox ESR 102.8 (CVE-2023-25744)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.8 (CVE-2023-25746)

* Mozilla: Extensions could have opened external schemes without user knowledge (CVE-2023-25729)

* Mozilla: Out of bounds memory write from EncodeInputStream (CVE-2023-25732)

* Mozilla: Web Crypto ImportKey crashes tab (CVE-2023-25742)

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-2023:0809.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc40b4a2

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0809

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170374

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170375

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170376

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170378

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170379

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170381

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170382

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170383

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170390

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170391

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170402

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171640

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0809.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2023

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: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25746

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:rhel_eus:9.0, 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: 2/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25728, CVE-2023-25729, CVE-2023-25730, CVE-2023-25732, CVE-2023-25735, CVE-2023-25737, CVE-2023-25739, CVE-2023-25742, CVE-2023-25743, CVE-2023-25744, CVE-2023-25746

CWE: 1021, 120, 173, 357, 416, 704, 787, 821, 84

IAVA: 2023-A-0081-S

RHSA: 2023:0809