The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6189 advisory.

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

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

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

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

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-2023:6189)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184050

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.3 Dec 1, 2023, 10:14 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202312011014
Version 1.2 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 1.1 Nov 2, 2023, 4:31 AM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202311020431
Version 1.0 Oct 31, 2023, 12:12 AM New Plugin Feed: 202310310012