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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : firefox (ELSA-2013-0696)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68801

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0696 advisory.

 firefox [17.0.5-1.0.1]
 - Add firefox-oracle-default-prefs.js and remove the corresponding Red Hat ones

 [17.0.5-1]
 - Update to 17.0.5 ESR

 xulrunner [17.0.5-1.0.1.el6_4]
 - Replaced xulrunner-redhat-default-prefs.js with xulrunner-oracle-default-prefs.js
 - Removed XULRUNNER_VERSION from SOURCE21

 [17.0.5-1]
 - Update to 17.0.5 ESR

 [17.0.3-3]
 - Added fix for rhbz#916180 - Wrong library directory reference in /usr/bin/xulrunner

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, xulrunner and / or xulrunner-devel packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0696.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68801

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0696.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0796

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-2013-0793

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xulrunner, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0788, CVE-2013-0793, CVE-2013-0795, CVE-2013-0796, CVE-2013-0800

BID: 58818

RHSA: 2013:0696