The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6188 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 115.4.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Queued up rendering could have allowed websites to clickjack (CVE-2023-5721)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 119, Firefox ESR 115.4, and Thunderbird 115.4     (CVE-2023-5730)

    * libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488)

    * Mozilla: Large WebGL draw could have led to a crash (CVE-2023-5724)

    * Mozilla: WebExtensions could open arbitrary URLs (CVE-2023-5725)

    * Mozilla: Improper object tracking during GC in the JavaScript engine could have led to a crash.
    (CVE-2023-5728)

    * Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via bidirectional characters (CVE-2023-5732)

    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 9 : firefox (RHSA-2023:6188)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184048

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.5 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.4 Dec 1, 2023, 10:14 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202312011014
Version 1.4 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.3 Nov 2, 2023, 2:21 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 10.0. "CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 score" set to 9.8. "CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-44488" to "CVE-2023-5730") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin Feed: 202311021421
Version 1.2 Nov 2, 2023, 4:31 AM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202311020431
Version 1.1 Oct 31, 2023, 4:07 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310310407
Version 1.0 Oct 31, 2023, 12:12 AM New Plugin Feed: 202310310012