RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2023:1787)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174343

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-2023:1787 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.10.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp (BZ#2186102)

* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured (CVE-2023-29533)

* Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction (CVE-2023-29535)

* Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code (CVE-2023-29536)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10 (CVE-2023-29550)

* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code (CVE-2023-1945)

* Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download (CVE-2023-29539)

* Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux (CVE-2023-29541)

* Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64 (CVE-2023-29548)

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-2023:1787.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ddad300

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186101

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186102

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186103

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186104

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186105

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186106

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186109

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186110

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186111

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1787

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174343

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1787.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2023

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-2023-29550

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: 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1945, CVE-2023-1999, CVE-2023-29533, CVE-2023-29535, CVE-2023-29536, CVE-2023-29539, CVE-2023-29541, CVE-2023-29548, CVE-2023-29550

CWE: 119, 120, 159, 415, 425, 434, 617, 682

IAVA: 2023-A-0182-S

RHSA: 2023:1787