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Oracle Linux 5 : firefox (ELSA-2008-0569)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67718

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0569 advisory.

 devhelp:

 [0.12-17]
 - Rebuild against xulrunner

 firefox:

 [3.0-2.0.1.el5]
 - Replaced the RedHat prefs and bookmarks with Oracle prefs and bookmarks
 - Add patch oracle-firefox-branding.patch

 [3.0-2]
 - Fixed firstrun homepage issue

 [3.0-1]
 - Update to Firefox 3 Final

 xulrunner:

 [1.9-1.0.1.el5]
 - Added xulrunner-oracle-default-prefs.js

 [1.9-1]
 - Update to 1.9 final

 yelp:

 [2.16.0-19]
 - rebuild against xulrunner

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2008-0569.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67718

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0569.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-2811

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-2800

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:devhelp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:yelp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:devhelp-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner-devel-unstable

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2800, CVE-2008-2801, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803, CVE-2008-2805, CVE-2008-2807, CVE-2008-2808, CVE-2008-2809, CVE-2008-2810, CVE-2008-2811

BID: 30038

RHSA: 2008:0569