RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2017:1106)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99572

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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 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1106 advisory.

- libevent: Stack-buffer overflow in the name_parse() function (CVE-2016-10195)

- libevent: Stack-buffer overflow in evutil_parse_sockaddr_port() (CVE-2016-10196)

- libevent: Out-of-bounds read in search_make_new() (CVE-2016-10197)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 53, Firefox ESR 45.9, and Firefox ESR 52.1 (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5429)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 53 and Firefox ESR 52.1 (MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5430)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in text input selection (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5432)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in SMIL animation functions (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5433)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free during focus handling (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5434)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free during transaction processing in the editor (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5435)

- Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malicious font in Graphite 2 (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5436)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsAutoPtr during XSLT processing (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5438)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsTArray Length() during XSLT processing (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5439)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in txExecutionState destructor during XSLT processing (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5440)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free with selection during scroll events (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5441)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free during style changes (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5442)

- Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write during BinHex decoding (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5443)

- Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing application/http-index-format content (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5444)

- Mozilla: Uninitialized values used while parsing application/http-index-format content (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5445)

- Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read when HTTP/2 DATA frames are sent with incorrect data (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5446)

- Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read during glyph processing (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5447)

- Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in ClearKeyDecryptor (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5448)

- Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5449)

- Mozilla: Addressbar spoofing with onblur event (MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5451)

- Mozilla: Sandbox escape allowing file system read access through file picker (MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5454)

- Mozilla: Sandbox escape through internal feed reader APIs (MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5455)

- Mozilla: Sandbox escape allowing local file system read access (MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5456)

- Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5459)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in frame selection (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5460)

- Mozilla: Memory corruption with accessibility and DOM manipulation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5464)

- Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in ConvolvePixel (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5465)

- Mozilla: Origin confusion when reloading isolated data:text/html URL (MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5466)

- Mozilla: Memory corruption when drawing Skia content (MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5467)

- Mozilla: Potential Buffer overflow in flex-generated code (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12) (CVE-2017-5469)

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-2017:1106.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99572

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-1106.nasl

Version: 3.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/21/2017

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5469

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 4/20/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197, CVE-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5430, CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5448, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451, CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5455, CVE-2017-5456, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5467, CVE-2017-5469

CWE: 121, 125

RHSA: 2017:1106

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