RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2019:2663)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128517

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2663 advisory.

- Mozilla: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync (CVE-2019-9812)

- firefox: stored passwords in 'Saved Logins' can be copied without master password entry (CVE-2019-11733)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1 (CVE-2019-11735)

- Mozilla: Content security policy bypass through hash-based sources in directives (CVE-2019-11738)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, Firefox ESR 60.9, Thunderbird 68.1, and Thunderbird 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740)

- Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images (CVE-2019-11742)

- Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes (CVE-2019-11743)

- Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (CVE-2019-11744)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video (CVE-2019-11746)

- Mozilla: 'Forget about this site' removes sites from pre-loaded HSTS list (CVE-2019-11747)

- Mozilla: Persistence of WebRTC permissions in a third party context (CVE-2019-11748)

- Mozilla: Camera information available without prompting using getUserMedia (CVE-2019-11749)

- Mozilla: Type confusion in Spidermonkey (CVE-2019-11750)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11752)

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 RHEL firefox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2663.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 128517

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2663.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/5/2019

Updated: 4/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11752

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: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11733

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11733, CVE-2019-11735, CVE-2019-11738, CVE-2019-11740, CVE-2019-11742, CVE-2019-11743, CVE-2019-11744, CVE-2019-11746, CVE-2019-11747, CVE-2019-11748, CVE-2019-11749, CVE-2019-11750, CVE-2019-11752, CVE-2019-9812

CWE: 120, 200, 250, 306, 358, 416, 732, 79, 829, 843

RHSA: 2019:2663

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