RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2022:1283)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159622

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-2022:1283 advisory.

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in NSSToken objects (CVE-2022-1097)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free after VR Process destruction (CVE-2022-1196)

- Mozilla: Denial of Service via complex regular expressions (CVE-2022-24713)

- Mozilla: Out of bounds write due to unexpected WebAuthN Extensions (CVE-2022-28281)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in DocumentL10n::TranslateDocument (CVE-2022-28282)

- Mozilla: Incorrect AliasSet used in JIT Codegen (CVE-2022-28285)

- Mozilla: iframe contents could be rendered outside the border (CVE-2022-28286)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8 (CVE-2022-28289)

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-2022:1283.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?86bd651e

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1283

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072559

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072560

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072561

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072562

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072563

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072564

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072565

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072566

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159622

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1283.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/9/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24713

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28289

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1, 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: 4/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1097, CVE-2022-1196, CVE-2022-24713, CVE-2022-28281, CVE-2022-28282, CVE-2022-28285, CVE-2022-28286, CVE-2022-28289

CWE: 1021, 120, 125, 400, 416, 787

IAVA: 2022-A-0134-S

RHSA: 2022:1283