Fedora 38 : firefox / nss (2023-983329cf45)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187186

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-983329cf45 advisory.

Update NSS to 3.95 Update to Firefox 121.0

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 and / or nss packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-983329cf45

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187186

File Name: fedora_2023-983329cf45.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6873

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox

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: 12/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6135, CVE-2023-6856, CVE-2023-6857, CVE-2023-6858, CVE-2023-6859, CVE-2023-6860, CVE-2023-6861, CVE-2023-6863, CVE-2023-6864, CVE-2023-6865, CVE-2023-6866, CVE-2023-6867, CVE-2023-6868, CVE-2023-6869, CVE-2023-6870, CVE-2023-6871, CVE-2023-6872, CVE-2023-6873

FEDORA: 2023-983329cf45

IAVA: 2023-A-0702-S