CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
93.2%
An updated firefox package that fixes various security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
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.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5501, CVE-2008-5502, CVE-2008-5511, CVE-2008-5512, CVE-2008-5513)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A website containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-5506, CVE-2008-5507)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox stored attributes in XML User Interface Language (XUL) elements. A website could use this flaw to track users across browser sessions, even if users did not allow the site to store cookies in the victim’s browser. (CVE-2008-5505)
A flaw was found in the way malformed URLs were processed by Firefox.
This flaw could prevent various URL sanitization mechanisms from properly parsing a malicious URL. (CVE-2008-5508)
A flaw was found in Firefox’s CSS parser. A malicious web page could inject NULL characters into a CSS input string, possibly bypassing an application’s script sanitization routines. (CVE-2008-5510)
For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.0.5. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section.
Note: after the errata packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted for the update to take effect.
All firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches that correct these issues.
#%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-2008:1036 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:1036 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(43721);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5500", "CVE-2008-5501", "CVE-2008-5502", "CVE-2008-5503", "CVE-2008-5504", "CVE-2008-5505", "CVE-2008-5506", "CVE-2008-5507", "CVE-2008-5508", "CVE-2008-5510", "CVE-2008-5511", "CVE-2008-5512", "CVE-2008-5513");
script_bugtraq_id(32882);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2008:1036");
script_name(english:"CentOS 4 / 5 : firefox (CESA-2008:1036)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An updated firefox package that fixes various security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
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.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A
web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-5500, CVE-2008-5501, CVE-2008-5502, CVE-2008-5511,
CVE-2008-5512, CVE-2008-5513)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed content was processed. A
website containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a
Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-5506,
CVE-2008-5507)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox stored attributes in XML User
Interface Language (XUL) elements. A website could use this flaw to
track users across browser sessions, even if users did not allow the
site to store cookies in the victim's browser. (CVE-2008-5505)
A flaw was found in the way malformed URLs were processed by Firefox.
This flaw could prevent various URL sanitization mechanisms from
properly parsing a malicious URL. (CVE-2008-5508)
A flaw was found in Firefox's CSS parser. A malicious web page could
inject NULL characters into a CSS input string, possibly bypassing an
application's script sanitization routines. (CVE-2008-5510)
For technical details regarding these flaws, please see the Mozilla
security advisories for Firefox 3.0.5. You can find a link to the
Mozilla advisories in the References section.
Note: after the errata packages are installed, Firefox must be
restarted for the update to take effect.
All firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches that correct these issues."
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# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/015503.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c41a699a"
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# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/015504.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?af5e9849"
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# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/015506.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c81378b3"
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# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-December/015507.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?2cb0c20b"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected firefox packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(20, 79, 200, 264, 399);
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:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-pkcs11-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xulrunner");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xulrunner-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xulrunner-devel-unstable");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/12/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/12/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/01/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2021 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|5)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 4.x / 5.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"i386", reference:"firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"firefox-3.0.5-1.el4.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"i386", reference:"nspr-4.7.3-1.el4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nspr-4.7.3-1.el4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"i386", reference:"nspr-devel-4.7.3-1.el4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nspr-devel-4.7.3-1.el4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"i386", reference:"nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nss-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"i386", reference:"nss-devel-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nss-devel-3.12.2.0-1.el4.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"firefox-3.0.5-1.el5.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"nspr-4.7.3-2.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"nspr-devel-4.7.3-2.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"nss-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"nss-tools-3.12.2.0-2.el5.centos")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.5-1.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.5-1.el5")) 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 / nspr / nspr-devel / nss / nss-devel / nss-pkcs11-devel / etc");
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5500
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5501
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5502
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5503
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5504
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5505
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5506
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5507
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5508
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5510
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5511
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5512
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5513
www.nessus.org/u?2cb0c20b
www.nessus.org/u?af5e9849
www.nessus.org/u?c41a699a
www.nessus.org/u?c81378b3