The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0811 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.8.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Content security policy leak in violation reports using iframes (CVE-2023-25728)

    * Mozilla: Screen hijack via browser fullscreen mode (CVE-2023-25730)

    * Mozilla: Potential use-after-free from compartment mismatch in SpiderMonkey (CVE-2023-25735)

    * Mozilla: Invalid downcast in SVGUtils::SetupStrokeGeometry (CVE-2023-25737)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free in mozilla::dom::ScriptLoadContext::~ScriptLoadContext (CVE-2023-25739)

    * Mozilla: Fullscreen notification not shown in Firefox Focus (CVE-2023-25743)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 110 and Firefox ESR 102.8 (CVE-2023-25744)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.8 (CVE-2023-25746)

    * Mozilla: Extensions could have opened external schemes without user knowledge (CVE-2023-25729)

    * Mozilla: Out of bounds memory write from EncodeInputStream (CVE-2023-25732)

    * Mozilla: Web Crypto ImportKey crashes tab (CVE-2023-25742)

    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-2023:0811)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171649

Version 1.3