7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.964 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.6%
An updated firefox package that fixes as security bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.
A bug was found in the way Firefox processes certain international domain names. An attacker could create a specially crafted HTML file, which when viewed by the victim would cause Firefox to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-2871 to this issue.
Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this updated package that contains a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:768 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:768 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(21962);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2871");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2005:768");
script_name(english:"CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2005:768)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An updated firefox package that fixes as security bug is now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.
A bug was found in the way Firefox processes certain international
domain names. An attacker could create a specially crafted HTML file,
which when viewed by the victim would cause Firefox to crash or
possibly execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-2871
to this issue.
Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this updated package that
contains a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-September/012144.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?fe7fe770"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-September/012148.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?aab96c1e"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-September/012149.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f4cb1f07"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected firefox package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:firefox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/09/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/09/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/07/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 4.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", reference:"firefox-1.0.6-1.4.2.centos4")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "firefox");
}