Fedora 16 : firefox-18.0-1.fc16 / xulrunner-18.0-6.fc16 (2013-0885)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63661

Synopsis

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

Description

Update to Firefox 18.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected firefox and / or xulrunner packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?68c9778e

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9939254

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63661

File Name: fedora_2013-0885.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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: 1/16/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Firefox XMLSerializer Use After Free)

Reference Information

BID: 57195, 57196, 57197, 57258, 57260, 57194, 57198, 57199, 57203, 57204, 57205, 57207, 57209, 57211, 57213, 57215, 57217, 57218, 57228, 57232, 57234, 57235, 57236, 57238, 57240

FEDORA: 2013-0885