Fedora 11 : kazehakase-0.5.6-11.svn3771_trunk.fc11.3 / Miro-2.0.5-2.fc11 / blam-1.8.5-12.fc11 / etc (2009-7898)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40347

Synopsis

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

Description

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.1, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox35.html#firefox3.5.1 Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

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.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511228

http://www.nessus.org/u?c4dd5e68

http://www.nessus.org/u?c39626ea

http://www.nessus.org/u?516373f1

http://www.nessus.org/u?35f8f173

http://www.nessus.org/u?1c9cf6fc

http://www.nessus.org/u?5868543c

http://www.nessus.org/u?3d7aa3f7

http://www.nessus.org/u?6c17131d

http://www.nessus.org/u?39187779

http://www.nessus.org/u?54b8571c

http://www.nessus.org/u?2d134e44

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5892c8e

http://www.nessus.org/u?4125ee3f

http://www.nessus.org/u?7dbcd608

http://www.nessus.org/u?eee125d3

http://www.nessus.org/u?099355bd

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa7e1869

http://www.nessus.org/u?188401d2

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f89eae2

http://www.nessus.org/u?f5a3b49c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40347

File Name: fedora_2009-7898.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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:chmsee, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:eclipse, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:epiphany-extensions, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:evolution-rss, 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:google-gadgets, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hulahop, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:java-1.6.0-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kazehakase, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozvoikko, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-gtk2-mozembed, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby-gnome2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:yelp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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: 7/22/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Firefox 3.5 escape() Return Value Memory Corruption)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2477, CVE-2009-2478, CVE-2009-2479

BID: 35660, 35707

CWE: 119, 189, 94

FEDORA: 2009-7898