An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 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 45.1.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es) :
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Phil Ringalda, CESG (the Information Security Arm of GCHQ), Sascha Just, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Carsten Book, Mats Palmgren, Gary Kwong, and Randell Jesup as the original reporters.
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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-2016:0695. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(90750);
script_version("2.23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/29");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1526", "CVE-2016-2805", "CVE-2016-2806", "CVE-2016-2807", "CVE-2016-2808", "CVE-2016-2814");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:0695");
script_name(english:"RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (RHSA-2016:0695)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates."
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,
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 45.1.0 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-2016-2805, CVE-2016-2806,
CVE-2016-2807, CVE-2016-2808, CVE-2016-2814)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these
issues. Upstream acknowledges Phil Ringalda, CESG (the Information
Security Arm of GCHQ), Sascha Just, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler,
Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Carsten Book, Mats Palmgren,
Gary Kwong, and Randell Jesup as the original reporters."
);
# https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/#
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?8b5eaff4"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0695"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1526"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2805"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2806"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2807"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2808"
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2814"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected firefox and / or firefox-debuginfo packages."
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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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/02/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/04/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/04/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(5|6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 5.x / 6.x / 7.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2016:0695";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"firefox-45.1.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.1.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"firefox-45.1.0-1.el6_7", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.1.0-1.el6_7", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"firefox-45.1.0-1.el7_2", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.1.0-1.el7_2", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "firefox / firefox-debuginfo");
}
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
redhat | enterprise_linux | firefox | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox |
redhat | enterprise_linux | firefox-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox-debuginfo |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 5 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 6 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 6.7 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.7 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.2 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.3 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.4 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.5 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1526
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2805
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2806
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2807
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2808
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2814
www.nessus.org/u?8b5eaff4
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0695
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1526
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2805
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2806
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2807
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2808
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2814