The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3831 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.4.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4 (CVE-2018-12405)

    * Mozilla: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element (CVE-2018-18492)

    * Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia (CVE-2018-18493)

    * Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal     cross-origin URLs (CVE-2018-18494)

    * Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images (CVE-2018-18498)

    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     Christian Holler, Diego Calleja, Andrew McCreight, Jon Coppeard, Natalia Csoregi, Nicolas B. Pierron,     Tyson Smith, Nils, Atte Kettunen, James Lee of Kryptos Logic, and r 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-2018:3831)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119734

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.10 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 1.9 Jul 15, 2024, 7:53 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-18498") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin Feed: 202407150753