RHEL 4 : firefox (RHSA-2005:434)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18387

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:434 advisory.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

Several bugs were found in the way Firefox executes javascript code.
Javascript executed from a web page should run with a restricted access level, preventing dangerous actions. It is possible that a malicious web page could execute javascript code with elevated privileges, allowing access to protected data and functions. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CAN-2005-1476, CAN-2005-1477, CAN-2005-1531, and CAN-2005-1532 to these issues.

Please note that the effects of CAN-2005-1477 are mitigated by the default setup, which allows only the Mozilla Update site to attempt installation of Firefox extensions. The Mozilla Update site has been modified to prevent this attack from working. If other URLs have been manually added to the whitelist, it may be possible to execute this attack.

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this updated package which contains Firefox version 1.0.4 which is not vulnerable to these issues.

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-2005:434.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18387

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-434.nasl

Version: 1.31

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/28/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-1532

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-1477

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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: 5/23/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1476, CVE-2005-1477, CVE-2005-1531, CVE-2005-1532

RHSA: 2005:434

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