RHEL 7 : firefox (RHSA-2020:2827)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138144

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2827 advisory.

- Mozilla: Memory corruption due to missing sign-extension for ValueTags on ARM64 (CVE-2020-12417)

- Mozilla: Information disclosure due to manipulated URL object (CVE-2020-12418)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner (CVE-2020-12419)

- Mozilla: Use-After-Free when trying to connect to a STUN server (CVE-2020-12420)

- Mozilla: Add-On updates did not respect the same certificate trust rules as software updates (CVE-2020-12421)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138144

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2827.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/7/2020

Updated: 3/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12420

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:firefox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12417, CVE-2020-12418, CVE-2020-12419, CVE-2020-12420, CVE-2020-12421

CWE: 119, 200, 296, 416

IAVA: 2020-A-0287-S

RHSA: 2020:2827

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