Detections
Analytics
Fedora 9 : devhelp-0.19.1-3.fc9 / epiphany-2.22.2-3.fc9 / epiphany-extensions-2.22.1-3.fc9 / etc (2008-6518)
high Nessus Plugin ID 33542
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 9. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed certain web content. A malicious website could cause Firefox to crash, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2785) A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain command line URLs. If another application passed Firefox a malformed URL, it could result in Firefox executing local malicious content with chrome privileges. (CVE-2008-2933) Updated packages update Mozilla Firefox to upstream version 3.0.1 to address these flaws: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.1 This update also contains devhelp, epiphany, epiphany-extensions, and yelp packages rebuilt against new Firefox / Gecko libraries.Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452204
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454697
http://www.nessus.org/u?d274af40
http://www.nessus.org/u?eeedb76f
http://www.nessus.org/u?2c69f870
http://www.nessus.org/u?8a7c4350
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 33542
File Name: fedora_2008-6518.nasl
Version: 1.19
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 7/18/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 8.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany-extensions, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yelp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devhelp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2933