The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0448 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

    Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web     page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or,     potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running     Firefox. (CVE-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1524, CVE-2014-1529, CVE-2014-1531)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Firefox resolved hosts in     certain circumstances. An attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or,     potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running     Firefox. (CVE-2014-1532)

    An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way Firefox decoded JPEG     images. Loading a web page containing a specially crafted JPEG image could     cause Firefox to crash. (CVE-2014-1523)

    A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled browser navigations through     history. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause the address bar     of the browser to display a web page name while loading content from an     entirely different web page, which could allow for cross-site scripting     (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2014-1530)

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
    Upstream acknowledges Bobby Holley, Carsten Book, Christoph Diehl, Gary     Kwong, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Nathan Froyd, Christian Holler,     Abhishek Arya, Mariusz Mlynski, moz_bug_r_a4, Nils, Tyson Smith, and Jesse     Schwartzentrube as the original reporters of these issues.

    For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security     advisories for Firefox 24.5.0 ESR. You can find a link to the Mozilla     advisories in the References section of this erratum.

    All Firefox users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains     Firefox version 24.5.0 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing     the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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 5 / 6 : firefox (RHSA-2014:0448)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 73781

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