The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6711 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.3.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages (CVE-2022-40959)

    * Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads (CVE-2022-40960)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3 (CVE-2022-40962)

    * Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix     (CVE-2022-40958)

    * Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass (CVE-2022-40956)

    * Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64 (CVE-2022-40957)

    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 7 : firefox (RHSA-2022:6711)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165469

Version 1.8