CentOS 6 : firefox (CESA-2019:3281)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130472

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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 68.2.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es) :

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

* 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)

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 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4001e65e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130472

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-3281.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2019

Updated: 2/18/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2020

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

RHSA: 2019:3281