The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4957 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.15.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC CanvasTranslator (CVE-2023-4573)

    * Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC ColorPickerShownCallback (CVE-2023-4574)

    * Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC FilePickerShownCallback (CVE-2023-4575)

    * Mozilla: Memory corruption in JIT UpdateRegExpStatics (CVE-2023-4577)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 102.15, Firefox ESR 115.2, Thunderbird     102.15, and Thunderbird 115.2 (CVE-2023-4584)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2     (CVE-2023-4585)

    * Mozilla: Full screen notification obscured by file open dialog (CVE-2023-4051)

    * Mozilla: Full screen notification obscured by external program (CVE-2023-4053)

    * Mozilla: Error reporting methods in SpiderMonkey could have triggered an Out of Memory Exception     (CVE-2023-4578)

    * Mozilla: Push notifications saved to disk unencrypted (CVE-2023-4580)

    * Mozilla: XLL file extensions were downloadable without warnings (CVE-2023-4581)

    * Mozilla: Browsing Context potentially not cleared when closing Private Window (CVE-2023-4583)

    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.

Detections

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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2023:4957)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180481

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.6 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.5 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.4 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.3 Sep 25, 2023, 2:20 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 7.8 to 10.0. "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 score" changed from 9.8 to 8.8. "CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-4053" to "CVE-2023-4585") Plugin Feed: 202309251420
Version 1.3 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.2 Sep 21, 2023, 4:26 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202309211626
Version 1.1 Sep 13, 2023, 4:22 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" changed from 7.5 to 9.8. "CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-4051" to "CVE-2023-4585") Plugin Feed: 202309131622
Version 1.0 Sep 5, 2023, 2:01 AM New Plugin Feed: 202309050201