Fedora 10 : Miro-2.0.3-2.fc10 / blam-1.8.5-8.fc10 / devhelp-0.22-6.fc10 / epiphany-2.24.3-4.fc10 / etc (2009-3100)

high Nessus Plugin ID 37824

Synopsis

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

Description

A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-1169) A flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles certain XUL garbage collection events. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-1044)

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: High

ID: 37824

File Name: fedora_2009-3100.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:miro, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:blam, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devhelp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany-extensions, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:evolution-rss, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:galeon, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gecko-sharp2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-python2-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-web-photo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:google-gadgets, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kazehakase, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozvoikko, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mugshot, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcmanx-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-gnome2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yelp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1044, CVE-2009-1169

BID: 34181, 34235

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2009-3100

Detections

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