Fedora 12 : blam-1.8.5-22.fc12 / firefox-3.5.8-1.fc12 / galeon-2.0.7-20.fc12 / etc (2010-1727)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 47268

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.8, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox35.html#firefox3.5.8 Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566047

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566049

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5fac908

http://www.nessus.org/u?23cb4f62

http://www.nessus.org/u?809be192

http://www.nessus.org/u?f7999407

http://www.nessus.org/u?755e870c

http://www.nessus.org/u?774cc8be

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566050

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566051

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566052

http://www.nessus.org/u?429f9532

http://www.nessus.org/u?d5a22aeb

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 47268

File Name: fedora_2010-1727.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:blam, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:galeon, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-python2-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-web-photo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozvoikko, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-gtk2-mozembed, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2009-3988, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0160, CVE-2010-0162

CWE: 264, 399, 79, 94

FEDORA: 2010-1727