The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2113 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.1.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-5188)

    * Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element (CVE-2018-12359)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus() (CVE-2018-12360)

    * Mozilla: Media recorder segmentation fault when track type is changed during capture (CVE-2018-5156)

    * Skia: Heap buffer overflow rasterizing paths in SVG (CVE-2018-6126)

    * Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler (CVE-2018-12362)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes (CVE-2018-12363)

    * Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins (CVE-2018-12364)

    * Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode (CVE-2017-7762)

    * Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames (CVE-2018-12365)

    * Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations (CVE-2018-12366)

    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 Alex     Gaynor, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, David Major, Jon Coppeard, Nicolas B. Pierron,     Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Nils, F. Alonso (revskills), David Black, and OSS-Fuzz 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 7 : firefox (RHSA-2018:2113)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110800

Version 1.17

Version 1.16

Version 1.17 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 1.16 Sep 10, 2024, 7:53 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-5188") Plugin Feed: 202409100753