RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2019:3193)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130190

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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 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3193 advisory.

- Mozilla: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11757)

- Mozilla: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security (CVE-2019-11758)

- Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output (CVE-2019-11759)

- Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking (CVE-2019-11760)

- Mozilla: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object (CVE-2019-11761)

- Mozilla: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin-property violation (CVE-2019-11762)

- Mozilla: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique (CVE-2019-11763)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2 (CVE-2019-11764)

- expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903)

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-2019:3193.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130190

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3193.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/24/2019

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 10/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11757, CVE-2019-11758, CVE-2019-11759, CVE-2019-11760, CVE-2019-11761, CVE-2019-11762, CVE-2019-11763, CVE-2019-11764, CVE-2019-15903

CWE: 120, 122, 125, 416, 749, 79, 829

IAVA: 2019-A-0395-S

RHSA: 2019:3193

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