RHEL 9 : firefox (RHSA-2023:3143)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175941

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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 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3143 advisory.

- Mozilla: Browser prompts could have been obscured by popups (CVE-2023-32205)

- Mozilla: Crash in RLBox Expat driver (CVE-2023-32206)

- Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2023-32207)

- Mozilla: Content process crash due to invalid wasm code (CVE-2023-32211)

- Mozilla: Potential spoof due to obscured address bar (CVE-2023-32212)

- Mozilla: Potential memory corruption in FileReader::DoReadData() (CVE-2023-32213)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 113 and Firefox ESR 102.11 (CVE-2023-32215)

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-2023:3143.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175941

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-3143.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/17/2023

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-2023-32215

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:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-x11

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: 5/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-32205, CVE-2023-32206, CVE-2023-32207, CVE-2023-32211, CVE-2023-32212, CVE-2023-32213, CVE-2023-32215

CWE: 120, 125, 280, 345, 400, 451, 457

IAVA: 2023-A-0242-S

RHSA: 2023:3143

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