Fedora 8 : Miro-1.2.7-2.fc8 / blam-1.8.3-19.fc8 / cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-1.fc8.1 / chmsee-1.0.0-5.31.fc8 / etc (2008-9667)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34777

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated firefox and xulrunner packages that fix various security issues are now available for Fedora Core 8. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Fedora Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-0017, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5016, CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5019, CVE-2008-5021) Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A website containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5023, CVE-2008-5024) A flaw was found in the way Firefox opened 'file:' URIs. If a file: URI was loaded in the same tab as a chrome or privileged 'about:' page, the file: URI could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-5015) For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 2.0.0.18[1]. All firefox users and users of packages depending on firefox[2] should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. [1] http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox20.html#firefox2.0.0.18 [2] blam cairo-dock chmsee devhelp epiphany epiphany-extensions evolution-rss galeon gnome-python2-extras gnome-web-photo kazehakase liferea Miro openvrml ruby-gnome2 yelp Provides Python bindings for libgdl on PPC64.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34777

File Name: fedora_2008-9667.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/16/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany-extensions, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:blam, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chmsee, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yelp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:miro, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvrml, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:evolution-rss, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-python2-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-gnome2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kazehakase, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-web-photo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:seamonkey, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cairo-dock, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devhelp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:liferea, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:galeon, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0017, CVE-2008-4582, CVE-2008-5012, CVE-2008-5013, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5016, CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5019, CVE-2008-5021, CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5023, CVE-2008-5024

CWE: 119, 189, 20, 200, 264, 287, 399, 79, 94

FEDORA: 2008-9667

Detections

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