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AlmaLinux 9 : firefox (ALSA-2024:9554)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 211579

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:9554 advisory.

 * firefox: Use-after-free in Animation timeline (128.3.1 ESR Chemspill) (CVE-2024-9680)
 * firefox: thunderbird: History interface could have been used to cause a Denial of Service condition in the browser (CVE-2024-10464)
 * firefox: thunderbird: XSS due to Content-Disposition being ignored in multipart/x-mixed-replace response (CVE-2024-10461)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Permission leak via embed or object elements (CVE-2024-10458)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in layout with accessibility (CVE-2024-10459)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 132, Thunderbird 132, Firefox ESR 128.4, and Thunderbird 128.4 (CVE-2024-10467)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Clipboard paste button persisted across tabs (CVE-2024-10465)
 * firefox: DOM push subscription message could hang Firefox (CVE-2024-10466)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Cross origin video frame leak (CVE-2024-10463)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Origin of permission prompt could be spoofed by long URL (CVE-2024-10462)
 * firefox: thunderbird: Confusing display of origin for external protocol handler prompt (CVE-2024-10460)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 affected firefox and / or firefox-x11 packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-9554.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9554

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 211579

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-9554.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 11/19/2024

Updated: 11/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9680

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firefox, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firefox-x11, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10458, CVE-2024-10459, CVE-2024-10460, CVE-2024-10461, CVE-2024-10462, CVE-2024-10463, CVE-2024-10464, CVE-2024-10465, CVE-2024-10466, CVE-2024-10467, CVE-2024-9680

CWE: 120, 20, 280, 400, 416, 79, 799, 940, 942

RHSA: 2024:9554