Fedora 13 : firefox-3.6.3-1.fc13 / xulrunner-1.9.2.3-1.fc13 (2010-6204)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 47424

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Synopsis

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

Description

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.6.3, fixing a security issue detailed in the upstream advisory:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox36.html#firefox3.6.3

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

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577029

http://www.nessus.org/u?d0c1d872

http://www.nessus.org/u?bb378e8b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 47424

File Name: fedora_2010-6204.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:firefox, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/9/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1121

BID: 38952

FEDORA: 2010-6204