RHEL 4 : seamonkey (RHSA-2012:0084)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57787

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0084 advisory.

- Mozilla: Same-origin bypass using IPv6-like hostname syntax (MFSA 2012-02) (CVE-2011-3670)

- Mozilla: memory safety hazards in 10.0/1.9.2.26 (MFSA 2012-01) (CVE-2012-0442)

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 seamonkey package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0084.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c6898ee4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0084

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785085

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785464

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57787

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0084.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2012

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0442

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3670

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:seamonkey-js-debugger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:seamonkey, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:seamonkey-dom-inspector, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:seamonkey-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:seamonkey-mail, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:seamonkey-chat, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3670, CVE-2012-0442

RHSA: 2012:0084