CentOS 7 : firefox (CESA-2022:0124)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 156821

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2022:0124 advisory.

- Mozilla: Iframe sandbox bypass with XSLT (CVE-2021-4140)

- Mozilla: Race condition when playing audio files (CVE-2022-22737)

- Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in blendGaussianBlur (CVE-2022-22738)

- Mozilla: Missing throttling on external protocol launch dialog (CVE-2022-22739)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free of ChannelEventQueue::mOwner (CVE-2022-22740)

- Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-22741, CVE-2022-22743)

- Mozilla: Out-of-bounds memory access when inserting text in edit mode (CVE-2022-22742)

- Mozilla: Leaking cross-origin URLs through securitypolicyviolation event (CVE-2022-22745)

- Mozilla: Crash when handling empty pkcs7 sequence (CVE-2022-22747)

- Mozilla: Spoofed origin on external protocol launch dialog (CVE-2022-22748)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 96 and Firefox ESR 91.5 (CVE-2022-22751)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 156821

File Name: centos_RHSA-2022-0124.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 1/19/2022

Updated: 11/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4140

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4140, CVE-2022-22737, CVE-2022-22738, CVE-2022-22739, CVE-2022-22740, CVE-2022-22741, CVE-2022-22742, CVE-2022-22743, CVE-2022-22745, CVE-2022-22747, CVE-2022-22748, CVE-2022-22751

CWE: 1021, 120, 416, 476, 829

IAVA: 2022-A-0017-S

RHSA: 2022:0124

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