The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1414 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and     portability.

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.8.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5150)

    * Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia (CVE-2018-5183)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths (CVE-2018-5154)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths (CVE-2018-5155)

    * Mozilla: Same-origin bypass of PDF Viewer to view protected PDF files (CVE-2018-5157)

    * Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer (CVE-2018-5158)

    * Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia (CVE-2018-5159)

    * Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction (CVE-2018-5168)

    * Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension     (CVE-2018-5178)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges     Christoph Diehl, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Alex Gaynor, Ronald Crane, Julian Hector, Kannan Vijayan,     Jason Kratzer, Mozilla Developers, Nils, Wladimir Palant, Ivan Fratric, and Root Object 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 : firefox (RHSA-2018:1414)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109834

Version 1.13

Version 1.12

Version 1.13 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.12 Oct 7, 2024, 7:17 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-5183") Plugin Feed: 202410070717