Update available for Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with critical security impac
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 148 |
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Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL7.x x86_64 (20190130) | 31 Jan 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Debian DSA-4376-1 : firefox-esr - security update | 31 Jan 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Debian DLA-1648-1 : firefox-esr security update | 31 Jan 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 7 : firefox (CESA-2019:0219) | 4 Feb 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2019:0336-1) | 13 Feb 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 7 : firefox (ELSA-2019-0219) | 31 Jan 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20190130) | 31 Jan 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 6 : firefox (RHSA-2019:0218) | 31 Jan 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2019:0219) | 31 Jan 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2019-133) | 5 Feb 201900:00 | – | nessus |
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:0218 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2019:0218 respectively.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/06/25");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-18500", "CVE-2018-18501", "CVE-2018-18505");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2019:0218");
script_name(english:"CentOS 6 : firefox (CESA-2019:0218)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance, and portability.
This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.5.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es) :
* Mozilla: Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream (CVE-2018-18500)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 65 and Firefox ESR 60.5
(CVE-2018-18501)
* Mozilla: Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages
(CVE-2018-18505)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a
CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s)
listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these
issues. Upstream acknowledges Yaniv Frank (SophosLabs), Alex Gaynor,
Christoph Diehl, Steven Crane, Jason Kratzer, Gary Kwong, Christian
Holler, and Jed Davis as the original reporters.");
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023187.html
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?806d6ad5");
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_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-18505");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/02/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/02/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/04");
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:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/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:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 6.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"firefox-60.5.0-2.el6.centos", allowmaj:TRUE)) 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");
}
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