CentOS 6 : firefox (CESA-2020:0521)

high Nessus Plugin ID 133769

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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 Important. 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 68.5.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es) :

* Mozilla: Missing bounds check on shared memory read in the parent process (CVE-2020-6796)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6800)

* Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection (CVE-2020-6798)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 133769

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-0521.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 2/19/2020

Updated: 3/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2020-6800

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: 2/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6796, CVE-2020-6798, CVE-2020-6800

IAVA: 2020-A-0072-S

RHSA: 2020:0521

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