Executive Summary

Summary
Title firefox security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2017:0461 First vendor Publication 2017-03-08
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2017-03-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for firefox is now available for 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.0 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-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5405)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Nils, Jerri Rice, Rh0, Anton Eliasson, David Kohlbrenner, Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero, Anonymous, Eric Lawrence of Chrome Security, Boris Zbarsky, Christian Holler, Honza Bambas, Jon Coppeard, Randell Jesup, André Bargull, Kan-Ru Chen, and Nathan Froyd as the original reporters.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1429778 - CVE-2017-5400 Mozilla: asm.js JIT-spray bypass of ASLR and DEP (MFSA 2017-06) 1429779 - CVE-2017-5401 Mozilla: Memory Corruption when handling ErrorResult (MFSA 2017-06) 1429780 - CVE-2017-5402 Mozilla: Use-after-free working with events in FontFace objects (MFSA 2017-06) 1429781 - CVE-2017-5404 Mozilla: Use-after-free working with ranges in selections (MFSA 2017-06) 1429782 - CVE-2017-5407 Mozilla: Pixel and history stealing via floating-point timing side channel with SVG filters (MFSA 2017-06) 1429783 - CVE-2017-5410 Mozilla: Memory corruption during JavaScript garbage collection incremental sweeping (MFSA 2017-06) 1429784 - CVE-2017-5408 Mozilla: Cross-origin reading of video captions in violation of CORS (MFSA 2017-06) 1429785 - CVE-2017-5405 Mozilla: FTP response codes can cause use of uninitialized values for ports (MFSA 2017-06) 1429786 - CVE-2017-5398 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 52 and Firefox ESR 45.8 (MFSA 2017-06)

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0461.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
38 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
25 % CWE-416 Use After Free
25 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
12 % CWE-388 Error Handling

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 460
Application 97
Application 343
Application 36
Os 2
Os 3
Os 3
Os 3
Os 2
Os 3
Os 3

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-07-27 Mozilla Firefox domFuzzLite3 table use after free attempt
RuleID : 43347 - Revision : 2 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX
2017-07-27 Mozilla Firefox domFuzzLite3 table use after free attempt
RuleID : 43346 - Revision : 2 - Type : BROWSER-FIREFOX

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-0498.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-0461.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-0459.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201705-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201705-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-08 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-545.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1047.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3832.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-896.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-31 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3216-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3233-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0732-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0714-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-16 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
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2017-03-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-344.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-345.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-15 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0498.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-15 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170314_thunderbird_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0498.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-852.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-10 Name : The remote Windows host contains a mail client that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_thunderbird_45_8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3805.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-10 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a mail client that is affected by ...
File : macosx_thunderbird_45_8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170308_firefox_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0459.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0461.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by ...
File : macosx_firefox_45_8_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by ...
File : macosx_firefox_52.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_45_8_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_52.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0459.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0461.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0459.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0461.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-09 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170308_firefox_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-08 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_96eca03113134daf9be29d6e1c4f1eb5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3216-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-08-01 17:21:57
  • Multiple Updates
2018-08-01 00:21:29
  • Multiple Updates
2018-06-13 09:21:18
  • Multiple Updates
2017-07-14 13:24:51
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-10 13:24:48
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-08 21:22:56
  • First insertion