RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2018:2884)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117972

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.2.2 ESR.

Security Fix(es) :

* Mozilla: type confusion in JavaScript (CVE-2018-12386)

* Mozilla: stack out-of-bounds read in Array.prototype.push (CVE-2018-12387)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. The upstream acknowledges Niklas Baumstark, Samuel Gross, and Bruno Keith as the original reporters, via Beyond Security's SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program.

Solution

Update the affected firefox and / or firefox-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-24/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2884

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12386

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12387

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 117972

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2884.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2018

Updated: 2/9/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12387

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12386, CVE-2018-12387

RHSA: 2018:2884