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CentOS 5 / 6 : firefox (CESA-2014:0741)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 74472
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.Description
Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1541)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden, Kyle Huey, Abhishek Arya, and Nils as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 24.6.0 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 24.6.0 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Solution
Update the affected firefox package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 74472
File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-0741.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 6/12/2014
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
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-2014-1533
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1541
RHSA: 2014:0741