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Fedora 37 : firefox (2023-09ec498a2a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182801

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-09ec498a2a advisory.

 This update is intended to fix all the issues with broken launchers and KDE crashes that were caused by changes to the .desktop files in recent Firefox updates. Please report any remaining issues.

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 This update provides the latest release of Firefox, with an important security fix. We highly recommend you install this update immediately and restart all Firefox instances.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected firefox package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-09ec498a2a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182801

File Name: fedora_2023-09ec498a2a.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5129, CVE-2023-5217

FEDORA: 2023-09ec498a2a

IAVA: 2023-A-0522-S