RHEL 5 / 6 : firefox (RHSA-2012:0515)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58867

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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 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0515 advisory.

- Mozilla: Off-by-one error in OpenType Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-31) (CVE-2011-3062)

- Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:12.0/ rv:10.0.4) (MFSA 2012-20) (CVE-2012-0467, CVE-2012-0468)

- Mozilla: use-after-free in IDBKeyRange (MFSA 2012-22) (CVE-2012-0469)

- Mozilla: Invalid frees causes heap corruption in gfxImageSurface (MFSA 2012-23) (CVE-2012-0470)

- Mozilla: Potential XSS via multibyte content processing errors (MFSA 2012-24) (CVE-2012-0471)

- Mozilla: Potential memory corruption during font rendering using cairo-dwrite (MFSA 2012-25) (CVE-2012-0472)

- Mozilla: WebGL.drawElements may read illegal video memory due to FindMaxUshortElement error (MFSA 2012-26) (CVE-2012-0473)

- Mozilla: Page load short-circuit can lead to XSS (MFSA 2012-27) (CVE-2012-0474)

- Mozilla: Potential XSS through ISO-2022-KR/ISO-2022-CN decoding issues (MFSA 2012-29) (CVE-2012-0477)

- Mozilla: Crash with WebGL content using textImage2D (MFSA 2012-30) (CVE-2012-0478)

- Mozilla: Potential site identity spoofing when loading RSS and Atom feeds (MFSA 2012-33) (CVE-2012-0479)

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-2012:0515.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58867

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0515.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/25/2012

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0470

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0474

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xulrunner, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xulrunner-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3062, CVE-2012-0467, CVE-2012-0468, CVE-2012-0469, CVE-2012-0470, CVE-2012-0471, CVE-2012-0472, CVE-2012-0473, CVE-2012-0474, CVE-2012-0477, CVE-2012-0478, CVE-2012-0479

BID: 53218, 53219, 53220, 53221, 53222, 53223, 53224, 53225, 53227, 53228, 53229, 53231

CWE: 119, 416, 79

RHSA: 2012:0515

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