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AlmaLinux 8 : firefox (ALSA-2024:3954)

2024-06-1900:00:00
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almalinux 8
firefox
package
vulnerabilities
alsa-2024:3954 advisory
use-after-free
javascript
timing attack
sandboxed iframes
cross-origin image leak
memory corruption
memory safety bugs
thunderbird
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7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.4%

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:3954 advisory.

* firefox: Use-after-free in networking (CVE-2024-5702)

* firefox: Use-after-free in JavaScript object transplant (CVE-2024-5688)
* firefox: External protocol handlers leaked by timing attack (CVE-2024-5690)
* firefox:  Sandboxed iframes were able to bypass sandbox restrictions to open a new window     (CVE-2024-5691)
* firefox: Cross-Origin Image leak via Offscreen Canvas (CVE-2024-5693)
* firefox: Memory Corruption in Text Fragments (CVE-2024-5696)
* firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 127, Firefox ESR 115.12, and Thunderbird 115.12     (CVE-2024-5700)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# AlmaLinux Security Advisory ALSA-2024:3954.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(200738);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/06/19");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2024-5688",
    "CVE-2024-5690",
    "CVE-2024-5691",
    "CVE-2024-5693",
    "CVE-2024-5696",
    "CVE-2024-5700",
    "CVE-2024-5702"
  );
  script_xref(name:"ALSA", value:"2024:3954");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2024-A-0335");

  script_name(english:"AlmaLinux 8 : firefox (ALSA-2024:3954)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ALSA-2024:3954 advisory.

    * firefox: Use-after-free in networking (CVE-2024-5702)

    * firefox: Use-after-free in JavaScript object transplant (CVE-2024-5688)
    * firefox: External protocol handlers leaked by timing attack (CVE-2024-5690)
    * firefox:  Sandboxed iframes were able to bypass sandbox restrictions to open a new window
    (CVE-2024-5691)
    * firefox: Cross-Origin Image leak via Offscreen Canvas (CVE-2024-5693)
    * firefox: Memory Corruption in Text Fragments (CVE-2024-5696)
    * firefox: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 127, Firefox ESR 115.12, and Thunderbird 115.12
    (CVE-2024-5700)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-3954.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected firefox package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-5702");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(120, 1287, 284, 385, 416, 829);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/06/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/06/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/06/19");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firefox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Alma Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AlmaLinux/release", "Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'AlmaLinux' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "AlmaLinux release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'AlmaLinux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux 8.x', 'AlmaLinux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'AlmaLinux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'firefox-115.12.0-1.el8_10.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE},
    {'reference':'firefox-115.12.0-1.el8_10.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'allowmaj':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'Alma-' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'firefox');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime
almalinuxfirefoxp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:firefox
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage
almalinux8cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap
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