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Oracle Linux 5 : Critical: / firefox (ELSA-2007-0979)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67591

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0979 advisory.

 [1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.0.1]
 - Add firefox-oracle-default-bookmarks.html and firefox-oracle-default-prefs.js for errata rebuild

 [1.5.0.12-0.7.el4]
 - Update to latest snapshot of Mozilla 1.8.0 branch

 [1.5.0.12-0.6.el4]
 - added pathes for Mozilla bugs 325761 and 392149

 [1.5.0.12-0.5.el4]
 - added pathes for Mozilla bugs 199088,267833,309322,345305,361745, 362901,372309,378787,381300,384105,386914,387033,387881,388121,388784 390078,393537,395942

 [1.5.0.12-0.4.el4]
 - Updated pango patches, added indic printing support (#129207)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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 and / or firefox-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2007-0979.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67591

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0979.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-5338

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-3844

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firefox-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firefox, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1095, CVE-2007-2292, CVE-2007-3511, CVE-2007-3844, CVE-2007-5334, CVE-2007-5337, CVE-2007-5338, CVE-2007-5339, CVE-2007-5340

BID: 22688, 23668, 24725, 25142, 26132

RHSA: 2007:0979