The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1106 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.1.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Multiple 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-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5430, CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434,     CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5437, CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441,     CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5448,     CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451, CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5455, CVE-2017-5456, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5460,     CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5467, CVE-2017-5469)

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla     developers and community, Nils, Holger Fuhrmannek, Atte Kettunen, Takeshi Terada, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala,     Nicolas Grgoire, Chamal De Silva, Chun Han Hsiao, Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero, Anonymous working     with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Haik Aftandilian, Paul Theriault, Julian Hector, Petr Cerny, Jordi     Chancel, and Heather Miller of Google Skia team as the original reporters.

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 7 : firefox (RHSA-2017:1106)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99572

Version 3.19

Version 3.18

Version 3.19 Mar 21, 2025, 6:26 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202503211826
Version 3.18 Apr 25, 2024, 2:46 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2017-5469") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404250246