The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:4111 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.3.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction (CVE-2019-17008)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3 (CVE-2019-17012)

    * Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer (CVE-2019-17005)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks (CVE-2019-17010)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking (CVE-2019-17011)

    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-2019:4111)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131749

Version 1.5