The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3196 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.2.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2 (CVE-2019-11764)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11757)

    * Mozilla: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security (CVE-2019-11758)

    * Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output (CVE-2019-11759)

    * Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking (CVE-2019-11760)

    * Mozilla: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object (CVE-2019-11761)

    * Mozilla: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin-property violation (CVE-2019-11762)

    * Mozilla: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique (CVE-2019-11763)

    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-2019:3196)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130248

Version 1.12

Version 1.11

Version 1.9

Version 1.12 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") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.11 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") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.9 Apr 16, 2024, 4:33 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202404161633