The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0966 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.6.1 ESR. (BZ#1690308)

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 66 and Firefox ESR 60.6 (CVE-2019-9788)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing in-use DOM elements (CVE-2019-9790)

    * Mozilla: Type inference is incorrect for constructors entered through on-stack replacement with     IonMonkey (CVE-2019-9791)

    * Mozilla: IonMonkey leaks JS_OPTIMIZED_OUT magic value to script (CVE-2019-9792)

    * Mozilla: IonMonkey MArraySlice has incorrect alias information (CVE-2019-9810)

    * Mozilla: Ionmonkey type confusion with __proto__ mutations (CVE-2019-9813)

    * Mozilla: Improper bounds checks when Spectre mitigations are disabled (CVE-2019-9793)

    * Mozilla: Type-confusion in IonMonkey JIT compiler (CVE-2019-9795)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free with SMIL animation controller (CVE-2019-9796)

    * Mozilla: Proxy Auto-Configuration file can define localhost access to be proxied (CVE-2018-18506)

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

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 8 : firefox (RHSA-2019:0966)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124662

Version 1.11

Version 1.10

Version 1.11 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM 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: 202411080225
Version 1.10 May 28, 2024, 12:26 PM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-9796") Plugin Feed: 202405281226