CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
98.0%
An updated firefox package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.
Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2801, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803)
Several 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 as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was displayed. A web page containing specially crafted content could potentially trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-2800)
Two local file disclosure flaws were found in Firefox. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to reveal the contents of a local file to a remote attacker. (CVE-2008-2805, CVE-2008-2810)
A flaw was found in the way a malformed .properties file was processed by Firefox. A malicious extension could read uninitialized memory, possibly leaking sensitive data to the extension. (CVE-2008-2807)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox escaped a listing of local file names. If a user could be tricked into listing a local directory containing malicious file names, arbitrary JavaScript could be run with the permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2808)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed information about self-signed certificates. It was possible for a self-signed certificate to contain multiple alternate name entries, which were not all displayed to the user, allowing them to mistakenly extend trust to an unknown site. (CVE-2008-2809)
All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches that correct these issues.
#%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-2008:0549. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(33424);
script_version("1.27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2798", "CVE-2008-2799", "CVE-2008-2800", "CVE-2008-2801", "CVE-2008-2802", "CVE-2008-2803", "CVE-2008-2805", "CVE-2008-2807", "CVE-2008-2808", "CVE-2008-2809", "CVE-2008-2810", "CVE-2008-2811");
script_bugtraq_id(30038);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2008:0549");
script_name(english:"RHEL 4 : firefox (RHSA-2008:0549)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An updated firefox package that fixes several security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.
Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed JavaScript
content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause
Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user
running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2801, CVE-2008-2802, CVE-2008-2803)
Several 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 as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2008-2798, CVE-2008-2799, CVE-2008-2811)
Several flaws were found in the way malformed web content was
displayed. A web page containing specially crafted content could
potentially trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive
information. (CVE-2008-2800)
Two local file disclosure flaws were found in Firefox. A web page
containing malicious content could cause Firefox to reveal the
contents of a local file to a remote attacker. (CVE-2008-2805,
CVE-2008-2810)
A flaw was found in the way a malformed .properties file was processed
by Firefox. A malicious extension could read uninitialized memory,
possibly leaking sensitive data to the extension. (CVE-2008-2807)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox escaped a listing of local file
names. If a user could be tricked into listing a local directory
containing malicious file names, arbitrary JavaScript could be run
with the permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2808)
A flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed information about
self-signed certificates. It was possible for a self-signed
certificate to contain multiple alternate name entries, which were not
all displayed to the user, allowing them to mistakenly extend trust to
an unknown site. (CVE-2008-2809)
All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to this updated package,
which contains backported patches that correct these issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2798"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2799"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2800"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2801"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2802"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2803"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2805"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2807"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2808"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2809"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2810"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2811"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0549"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected firefox package."
);
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_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_canvas", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"canvas_package", value:'CANVAS');
script_cwe_id(20, 79, 200, 264, 287, 399);
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:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/07/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/07/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/07/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 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:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 4.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "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-2008:0549";
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:"RHEL4", reference:"firefox-1.5.0.12-0.19.el4")) 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");
}
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2798
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2799
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2800
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2801
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2802
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2803
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2805
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2807
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2808
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2809
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2810
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2811
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0549
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2798
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2799
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2800
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2801
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2802
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2803
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2805
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2807
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2808
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2809
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2810
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-2811