RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2019:1269)

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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2019:1269)

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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 8.

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 60.7.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es) :

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 67 and Firefox ESR 60.7 (CVE-2019-9800)

* Mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with createImageBitmap (CVE-2019-9797)

* Mozilla: Type confusion with object groups and UnboxedObjects (CVE-2019-9816)

* Mozilla: Stealing of cross-domain images using canvas (CVE-2019-9817)

* Mozilla: Compartment mismatch with fetch API (CVE-2019-9819)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free of ChromeEventHandler by DocShell (CVE-2019-9820)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest (CVE-2019-11691)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free removing listeners in the event listener manager (CVE-2019-11692)

* Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL bufferdata on Linux (CVE-2019-11693)

* mozilla: Cross-origin theft of images with ImageBitmapRenderingContext (CVE-2018-18511)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in Skia (CVE-2019-5798)

* Mozilla: Theft of user history data through drag and drop of hyperlinks to and from bookmarks (CVE-2019-11698)

* libpng: use-after-free in png_image_free in png.c (CVE-2019-7317)

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

Solution

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 125385

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1269.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/24/2019

Updated: 5/29/2020

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-debugsource, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18511, CVE-2019-11691, CVE-2019-11692, CVE-2019-11693, CVE-2019-11698, CVE-2019-5798, CVE-2019-7317, CVE-2019-9797, CVE-2019-9800, CVE-2019-9816, CVE-2019-9817, CVE-2019-9819, CVE-2019-9820

RHSA: 2019:1269