The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0295 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.4.1 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: IonMonkey type confusion with StoreElementHole and FallibleStoreElement (CVE-2019-17026)

    * 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: Bypass of @namespace CSS sanitization during pasting (CVE-2019-17016)

    * Mozilla: Type Confusion in XPCVariant.cpp (CVE-2019-17017)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4 (CVE-2019-17024)

    * 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)

    * Mozilla: CSS sanitization does not escape HTML tags (CVE-2019-17022)

    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-2020:0295)

high Nessus Plugin ID 133386

Version 1.17

Version 1.16

Version 1.15

Version 1.14

Version 1.13

Version 1.17 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 1.16 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.15 May 25, 2023, 5:09 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251709
Version 1.14 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912
Version 1.13 Dec 6, 2022, 6:51 PM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212061851