The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2456 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.3.0 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-2017-7779, CVE-2017-7798, CVE-2017-7800, CVE-2017-7801, CVE-2017-7753,     CVE-2017-7784, CVE-2017-7785, CVE-2017-7786, CVE-2017-7787, CVE-2017-7792, CVE-2017-7802, CVE-2017-7807,     CVE-2017-7809, CVE-2017-7791, CVE-2017-7803)

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla     developers and community, Frederik Braun, Looben Yang, Nils, SkyLined, Oliver Wagner, Fraser Tweedale,     Mathias Karlsson, Jose Mara Acua, and Rhys Enniks as the original reporters.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 6 / 7 : firefox (RHSA-2017:2456)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102410

Version 3.16