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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : firefox (ELSA-2011-0471)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68261

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0471 advisory.

 firefox:

 [3.6.17-1.0.1.el6_0]
 - Added firefox-oracle-default-prefs.js and removed firefox-redhat-default-prefs.js

 [3.6.17-1]
 - Update to 3.6.17

 xulrunner:

 [1.9.2.17-4.0.1.el6_0]
 - Replace xulrunner-redhat-default-prefs.js with xulrunner-oracle-default-prefs.js

 [1.9.2.17-4]
 - Rebuild

 [1.9.2.17-3]
 - Update to 1.9.2.17

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 firefox, xulrunner and / or xulrunner-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-0471.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 68261

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0471.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: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0081

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0080

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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: 4/29/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Mozilla Firefox "nsTreeRange" Dangling Pointer Vulnerability)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0065, CVE-2011-0066, CVE-2011-0067, CVE-2011-0069, CVE-2011-0070, CVE-2011-0071, CVE-2011-0072, CVE-2011-0073, CVE-2011-0074, CVE-2011-0075, CVE-2011-0077, CVE-2011-0078, CVE-2011-0080, CVE-2011-0081, CVE-2011-1202

RHSA: 2011:0471