Fedora 14 : firefox-3.6.17-1.fc14 / galeon-2.0.7-40.fc14.1 / gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-30.fc14.1 / etc (2011-6215)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53613

Synopsis

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

Description

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.6.17, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories :

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html#f irefox3.6.17

Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

This update also provides new upstream Thunderbird version 3.1.10, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories :

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird31.ht ml#thunderbird3.1.10

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7cbff22e

http://www.nessus.org/u?353363cb

http://www.nessus.org/u?c32c2f8c

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c383217

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fd3aead

http://www.nessus.org/u?7fe3672c

http://www.nessus.org/u?adf1fa23

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c044911

http://www.nessus.org/u?1e6322f1

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa68e51a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53613

File Name: fedora_2011-6215.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2011

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:galeon, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-python2-extras, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnome-web-photo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mozvoikko, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-gtk2-mozembed, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xulrunner, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2011

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2011-6215