CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
97.9%
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 45.2.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es) :
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges sushi Anton Larsson, firehack, Jordi Chancel, Christian Holler, Sylvestre Ledru, Tyson Smith, jomo, Jesse Ruderman, Julian Seward, Timothy Nikkel, Karl Tomlinson, Olli Pettay, and Gary Kwong as the original reporters.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2016:1217. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(91536);
script_version("2.21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/29");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2818", "CVE-2016-2819", "CVE-2016-2821", "CVE-2016-2822", "CVE-2016-2828", "CVE-2016-2831");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:1217");
script_name(english:"RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (RHSA-2016:1217)");
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."
);
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 45.2.0 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-2016-2818, CVE-2016-2819,
CVE-2016-2821, CVE-2016-2822, CVE-2016-2828, CVE-2016-2831)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these
issues. Upstream acknowledges sushi Anton Larsson, firehack, Jordi
Chancel, Christian Holler, Sylvestre Ledru, Tyson Smith, jomo, Jesse
Ruderman, Julian Seward, Timothy Nikkel, Karl Tomlinson, Olli Pettay,
and Gary Kwong 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"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2831"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2821"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2819"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2818"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2828"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2822"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected firefox and / or firefox-debuginfo packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
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:"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: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:"2016/06/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/06/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/06/09");
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-2016:1217";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
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-45.2.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.2.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"firefox-45.2.0-1.el6_8", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.2.0-1.el6_8", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"firefox-45.2.0-1.el7_2", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.2.0-1.el7_2", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
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 | 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 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.6 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2818
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2819
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2821
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2822
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2828
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2831
www.nessus.org/u?8b5eaff4
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1217
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2818
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2819
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2821
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2822
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2828
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-2831
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
97.9%