RHEL 4 / 5 : firefox (RHSA-2010:0112)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44651

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for firefox.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0112 advisory.

- Mozilla incorrectly frees used memory (MFSA 2010-03) (CVE-2009-1571)

- Mozilla violation of same-origin policy due to properties set on objects passed to showModalDialog (MFSA 2010-04) (CVE-2009-3988)

- Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2010-01) (CVE-2010-0159)

- Mozilla implementation of Web Workers can lead to crash with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2010-02) (CVE-2010-0160)

- Mozilla bypass of same-origin policy due to improper SVG document processing (MFSA 2010-05) (CVE-2010-0162)

- firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey: crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2010-11) (CVE-2010-0167)

- firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey: browser chrome defacement via cached XUL stylesheets (MFSA 2010-14) (CVE-2010-0169)

- firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey: XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout on a wrapped object (MFSA 2010-12) (CVE-2010-0171)

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-2010:0112.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44651

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0112.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/18/2010

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0160

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0171

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xulrunner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xulrunner-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xulrunner-devel-unstable, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160, CVE-2010-0162, CVE-2010-0167, CVE-2010-0169, CVE-2010-0171

BID: 38285, 38286, 38287, 38288, 38289

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2010:0112

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