Fedora 40 : firefox / nss (2024-7f0a88301b)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 205380

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-7f0a88301b advisory.

Update NSS to 3.103.0 Update to Firefox 129.0

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-2024-7f0a88301b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 205380

File Name: fedora_2024-7f0a88301b.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2024

Updated: 9/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8389

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7518, CVE-2024-7519, CVE-2024-7520, CVE-2024-7521, CVE-2024-7522, CVE-2024-7523, CVE-2024-7524, CVE-2024-7525, CVE-2024-7526, CVE-2024-7527, CVE-2024-7528, CVE-2024-7529, CVE-2024-7530, CVE-2024-7531, CVE-2024-8387, CVE-2024-8389, CVE-2024-8900

FEDORA: 2024-7f0a88301b

IAVA: 2024-A-0465-S