RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2024:0971)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190987

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-2024:0971 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Firefox to version 115.8.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Out-of-bounds memory read in networking channels (CVE-2024-1546)

* Mozilla: Alert dialog could have been spoofed on another site (CVE-2024-1547)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 123, Firefox ESR 115.8, and Thunderbird 115.8 (CVE-2024-1553)

* Mozilla: Fullscreen Notification could have been hidden by select element (CVE-2024-1548)

* Mozilla: Custom cursor could obscure the permission dialog (CVE-2024-1549)

* Mozilla: Mouse cursor re-positioned unexpectedly could have led to unintended permission grants (CVE-2024-1550)

* Mozilla: Multipart HTTP Responses would accept the Set-Cookie header in response parts (CVE-2024-1551)

* Mozilla: Incorrect code generation on 32-bit ARM devices (CVE-2024-1552)

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-2024:0971.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1864e63b

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265349

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265350

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265351

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265352

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265353

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265354

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265355

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265356

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0971

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190987

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0971.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2024

Updated: 11/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1553

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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_tus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4

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: 2/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1546, CVE-2024-1547, CVE-2024-1548, CVE-2024-1549, CVE-2024-1550, CVE-2024-1551, CVE-2024-1552, CVE-2024-1553

CWE: 1021, 120, 125, 449, 681, 74

IAVA: 2024-A-0108-S

RHSA: 2024:0971