CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
98.6%
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 45.6.0 ESR.
Security Fix(es) :
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Philipp, Wladimir Palant, Nils, Jann Horn, Aral, Andrew Krasichkov, insertscript, Jan de Mooij, Iris Hsiao, Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Timothy Nikkel, Christoph Diehl, Olli Pettay, Raymond Forbes, and Boris Zbarsky 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-2016:2946. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(95819);
script_version("2.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/29");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9893", "CVE-2016-9895", "CVE-2016-9897", "CVE-2016-9898", "CVE-2016-9899", "CVE-2016-9900", "CVE-2016-9901", "CVE-2016-9902", "CVE-2016-9904", "CVE-2016-9905");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:2946");
script_name(english:"RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (RHSA-2016:2946)");
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 45.6.0 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-2016-9893, CVE-2016-9899,
CVE-2016-9895, CVE-2016-9897, CVE-2016-9898, CVE-2016-9900,
CVE-2016-9901, CVE-2016-9902, CVE-2016-9904, CVE-2016-9905)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these
issues. Upstream acknowledges Philipp, Wladimir Palant, Nils, Jann
Horn, Aral, Andrew Krasichkov, insertscript, Jan de Mooij, Iris Hsiao,
Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Timothy Nikkel, Christoph Diehl, Olli
Pettay, Raymond Forbes, and Boris Zbarsky 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-2016:2946"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9905"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9901"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9898"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9899"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9904"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9897"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9895"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9900"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9893"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9902"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected firefox and / or firefox-debuginfo packages."
);
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:F/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:F/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:"exploit_framework_core", 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:7.3");
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:"2018/06/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/12/14");
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-2016:2946";
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-45.6.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.6.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"firefox-45.6.0-1.el6_8", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.6.0-1.el6_8", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"firefox-45.6.0-1.el7_3", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"firefox-debuginfo-45.6.0-1.el7_3", 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 | 7 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 |
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 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.7 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9893
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9895
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9897
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9898
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9899
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9900
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9901
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9902
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9904
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9905
www.nessus.org/u?8b5eaff4
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2946
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9893
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9895
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9897
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9898
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9899
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9900
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9901
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9902
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9904
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9905
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
98.6%