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Oracle Linux 5 : firefox (ELSA-2008-0978)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67766

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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-2008-0978 advisory.

 devhelp:

 [0.12-20]
 - Rebuild against xulrunner

 firefox:

 [3.0.4-1.0.1.el5]
 - Added firefox-oracle-default-prefs.js/firefox-oracle-default-bookmarks.html Removed the corresponding files of Red Hat.
 - Added patch oracle-firefox-branding.patch
 - Update firstrun URL in spec file

 [3.0.4-5]
 - Update to Firefox 3.0.4
 - Removed firefox-2.0-getstartpage.patch (#454283)

 nss:

 [3.12.1.1-3]
 - Update to NSS_3_12_1_WITH_CKBI_1_72_RTM

 xulrunner:

 [1.9.0.4-1.0.1]
 - Added xulrunner-oracle-default-prefs.js

 [1.9.0.4-1]
 - Update to 1.9.0.4

 [1.9.0.2-6]
 - Enabled safe-browsing (#463157)

 yelp:

 [2.16.0-22]
 - 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-2008-0978.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67766

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0978.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

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-2008-5052

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-2008-5019

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner-devel-unstable, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:devhelp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:yelp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-pkcs11-devel, 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:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0017, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5015, CVE-2008-5016, CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5019, CVE-2008-5021, CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5023, CVE-2008-5024, CVE-2008-5052

BID: 32281

RHSA: 2008:0978