RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2022:7070)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166343

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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 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7070 advisory.

- Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs (CVE-2022-42927)

- Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine (CVE-2022-42928)

- Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print (CVE-2022-42929)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird 102.4 (CVE-2022-42932)

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-2022:7070.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166343

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7070.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/20/2022

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42932

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42927, CVE-2022-42928, CVE-2022-42929, CVE-2022-42932

CWE: 120, 400, 829

IAVA: 2022-A-0435-S, 2023-A-0132-S

RHSA: 2022:7070

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