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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : firefox (ELSA-2017-1440)

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From Red Hat Security Advisory 2017:1440 :

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.2.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es) :

  • Multiple 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 with the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7764)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Nils, Nicolas Trippar of Zimperium zLabs, Mats Palmgren, Philipp, Masayuki Nakano, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Andre Bargull, Carsten Book, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Julian Hector, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Samuel Erb, Holger Fuhrmannek, Tyson Smith, Abhishek Arya, and F. Alonso (revskills) as the original reporters.

#%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-2017:1440 and 
# Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-1440 respectively.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(100800);
  script_version("3.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/01/16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-5470", "CVE-2017-5472", "CVE-2017-7749", "CVE-2017-7750", "CVE-2017-7751", "CVE-2017-7752", "CVE-2017-7754", "CVE-2017-7756", "CVE-2017-7757", "CVE-2017-7758", "CVE-2017-7764", "CVE-2017-7771", "CVE-2017-7772", "CVE-2017-7773", "CVE-2017-7774", "CVE-2017-7776", "CVE-2017-7777", "CVE-2017-7778");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2017:1440");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : firefox (ELSA-2017-1440)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"From Red Hat Security Advisory 2017:1440 :

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
and 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.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.2.0 ESR.

Security Fix(es) :

* Multiple 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 with the privileges
of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472,
CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7771,
CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774,
CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778, CVE-2017-7750,
CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758,
CVE-2017-7764)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these
issues. Upstream acknowledges Nils, Nicolas Trippar of Zimperium
zLabs, Mats Palmgren, Philipp, Masayuki Nakano, Christian Holler,
Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Andre Bargull, Carsten Book, Jesse
Schwartzentruber, Julian Hector, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Samuel
Erb, Holger Fuhrmannek, Tyson Smith, Abhishek Arya, and F. Alonso
(revskills) as the original reporters."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2017-June/006985.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2017-June/006986.html"
  );
  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:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firefox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/06/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/06/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/06/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"former");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleLinux")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux 6 / 7", "Oracle Linux " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/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, "Oracle Linux", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"firefox-52.2.0-1.0.1.el6_9", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;

if (rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"firefox-52.2.0-1.0.1.el7_3", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "firefox");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinuxfirefoxp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:firefox
oraclelinux6cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6
oraclelinux7cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7

References