Fedora 8 : Miro-1.2.3-3.fc8 / blam-1.8.3-17.fc8 / cairo-dock-1.6.1.1-1.fc8.1 / chmsee-1.0.0-3.31.fc8 / etc (2008-6491)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33539

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 8. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed certain web content. A malicious website could cause Firefox to crash, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2785) A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain command line URLs. If another application passed Firefox a malformed URL, it could result in Firefox executing local malicious content with chrome privileges. (CVE-2008-2933) Updated packages update Mozilla Firefox to upstream version 2.0.0.16 to address these flaws: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox20.html#firefox2.0.0.16 This update also contains blam, cairo-dock, chmsee, devhelp, epiphany, epiphany-extensions, galeon, gnome- python2-extras, gnome-web-photo, gtkmozembedmm, kazehakase, liferea, Miro, openvrml, ruby-gnome2 and yelp packages rebuilt against new Firefox / Gecko libraries.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33539

File Name: fedora_2008-6491.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/18/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:miro, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:blam, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cairo-dock, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chmsee, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devhelp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany-extensions, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:galeon, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-python2-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-web-photo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gtkmozembedmm, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kazehakase, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:liferea, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvrml, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-gnome2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yelp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2785, CVE-2008-2933

BID: 29802, 30242

CWE: 189, 20

FEDORA: 2008-6491

Detections

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