The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2692 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.2.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 62 and Firefox ESR 60.2 (CVE-2018-12376)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free in driver timers (CVE-2018-12377)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (CVE-2018-12378)

    * Mozilla: Proxy bypass using automount and autofs (CVE-2017-16541)

    * Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malicious MAR file (CVE-2018-12379)

    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, Boris Zbarsky, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Jed Davis, Tyson Smith, Bogdan     Tara, Karl Tomlinson, Mats Palmgren, Nika Layzell, Ted Campbell, Nils, Zhanjia Song, and Holger Fuhrmannek     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-2018:2692)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117469

Version 1.12

Version 1.11

Version 1.12 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2017-16541,CVE-2018-12376,CVE-2018-12377,CVE-2018-12378,CVE-2018-12379,CVE-2018-18499") 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 1.11 Aug 8, 2024, 9:29 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-12378") Plugin Feed: 202408080929