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Fedora 37 : firefox (2023-09ec498a2a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182801

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-09ec498a2a advisory.

 - Rejected reason: This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority. Duplicate of CVE-2023-4863. (CVE-2023-5129)

 - Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-5217)

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 affected firefox package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-09ec498a2a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182801

File Name: fedora_2023-09ec498a2a.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2023

Updated: 4/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5129, CVE-2023-5217

FEDORA: 2023-09ec498a2a

IAVA: 2023-A-0522-S