RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2023:4463)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 179321

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-2023:4463 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.14.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Offscreen Canvas could have bypassed cross-origin restrictions (CVE-2023-4045)

* Mozilla: Incorrect value used during WASM compilation (CVE-2023-4046)

* Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2023-4047)

* Mozilla: Crash in DOMParser due to out-of-memory conditions (CVE-2023-4048)

* Mozilla: Fix potential race conditions when releasing platform objects (CVE-2023-4049)

* Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in StorageManager (CVE-2023-4050)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, Firefox ESR 102.14, Thunderbird 115.1, and Thunderbird 102.14 (CVE-2023-4056)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird 115.1 (CVE-2023-4057)

* Mozilla: Cookie jar overflow caused unexpected cookie jar state (CVE-2023-4055)

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-2023:4463.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?14f103ba

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228360

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228362

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228363

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228364

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228365

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228367

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228370

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228371

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4463

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 179321

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4463.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2023

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-2023-4057

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:8.6

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: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4045, CVE-2023-4046, CVE-2023-4047, CVE-2023-4048, CVE-2023-4049, CVE-2023-4050, CVE-2023-4055, CVE-2023-4056, CVE-2023-4057

CWE: 120, 125, 20, 280, 362, 784, 829

IAVA: 2023-A-0388-S

RHSA: 2023:4463