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CentOS 7 : firefox (CESA-2019:0219)

Red Hat Firefox update to version 60.5.0 ESR with critical security fixes

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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-2019:0219 and 
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2019:0219 respectively.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(121551);
  script_version("1.9");
  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:"2019:0219");

  script_name(english:"CentOS 7 : firefox (CESA-2019:0219)");

  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 7.

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/023155.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?8aa46fff");
  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:7");
  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:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 7.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-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.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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