The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0817 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.7.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free in XSLT parameter processing (CVE-2022-26485)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGPU IPC Framework (CVE-2022-26486)

    * expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)

    * expat: Namespace-separator characters in xmlns[:prefix] attribute values can lead to arbitrary code     execution (CVE-2022-25236)

    * expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free in text reflows (CVE-2022-26381)

    * Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-26383)

    * Mozilla: iframe allow-scripts sandbox bypass (CVE-2022-26384)

    * Mozilla: Time-of-check time-of-use bug when verifying add-on signatures (CVE-2022-26387)

    * Mozilla: Temporary files downloaded to /tmp and accessible by other local users (CVE-2022-26386)

    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-2022:0817)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158812

Version 1.12

Version 1.11

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.12 Nov 8, 2024, 5:19 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080519
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 1.10 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.9 May 25, 2023, 3:03 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251503
Version 1.8 Apr 25, 2023, 11:11 PM CVSS temporal metrics (Adjust exploitability metrics for CISA KEV vulnerabilities) Plugin Feed: 202304252311
Version 1.7 Jan 23, 2023, 9:47 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301232147